HOMEBUSH ABATTOIR

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 279, 9 November 1931, Page 8

HOMEBUSH ABATTOIR

STARTLING WASTE ALLEGED. HUGE ANNUAL LOSS. Sydney, Nov. 8. The Government board'-’s investigations of operations at the Homebush abattoir resulted in a sensational report by the investigator on the city s account, Mr A. G. Noble alleging a startling waste of Government money in the construction of the saleyards, which were then abandoned, this alone amounting to £190,000 loss, besides smaller wastages by which the annual loss on the abattoir will probably reach £lOO,OOO. Mr Noble mentions charges that the Australian meat market has been detrimentally manipulated by foreign companies with Argentine affiliations. He considers Homebush should be managed co-operatively. A bill will probably be introduced before Christmas taking the enterprise out of Government hands and vesting it in the producers on a cooperative basis. Mr Noble points out that the present marketing system is so unsatisfactory to the producers that they are compelled to send 2,000, 000 sheep annually to Victoria, where they are killed and exported as Victorian.