RECORD DAY’S KILLINGS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 303, 7 December 1931, Page 10

RECORD DAY’S KILLINGS

HAITI FREEZING WORKS. In addition to the freezing season being much earlier in Gisborne this year, there appears a decided prospect of record killings being established if the present rates is continued (states the “Poverty (Bay Herald”). The daily tallies are now exceeding anything before registered at either of the freezing works here in the past, and they are even greater than any daily aggregate since the merger came into operation. The largest day’s killings last year fell just short of 6000 sheep and lambs, but this year the total lias reached considerably more than this for “-he heaviest day’s work. For some weeks now a full board of butchers has been engaged, with the daily slaughtering gradually increasing, the peak being reached last Tuesday, when 6516 sheep and lambs were dealt with. The killings were large for the remainder of the week, but had not exceeded Tuesday’s tally. The killings for the season to date reached 125,000 sheep and lambs up to and including Thursday. This represents a remarkable advance compared with other years, up to this date for, excluding last year, the season was hardly under way here at this time. Second drafts of lambs are now coming in. The quality of many of the lines is still up to a high standard, but in view of the fact that the pick of the lambs were sent away early in the season, those now passing over the slaughtering board are not of the uniform quality dealt with in October and early last month. There is also a noticeable reduction in the weights of the carcases. compared with the early season’s killings. Lambs still comprise the bulk of the stock received at the works. In addition to sheep and lambs, about 1000 pigs have come forward. A further shipment of frozen meat is to be made from Gisborne during the next few days, by the Port Huon. Space for 15.000 freight carcaces has been reserved for Gisborne on this vessel.