HEAVY EXPORT KILLINGS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23861, 11 January 1941, Page 11

HEAVY EXPORT KILLINGS

KAITI FREEZING WORKS [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] GISBORNE, Friday Since the killing of fat stock for export was resumed at the Kaiti freezing works after the holidays the butchers have been going at full pressure slaughtering about 5000 lambs a day. Sheep are coming forward in larger numbers and the drafts should increase as the season progresses. Fattening conditions are reported to be hardly as good as before Christmas, when farmers were securing greater numbers of fat lambs than they expected, while it is reported that in some cases now difficulty is being experienced in making up mobs to the strength that was anticipated earlier. The only change announced in buying schedules this week is an advance of id per lb. in wethers on all weights and grades, bringing the top price to sjUl.

8000 LAMBS A DAY HIGH OUTPUT AT WAXGANUI [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] WAXGANUI, Friday The Now Zealand Refrigerating Company's I inlay freezing works are working at full capacity and are killing between 7000 and 8000 lambs a day. At the beginning of the season, which opened in Wanganui on November '26, the number of lambs for export handled at. the works was smaller than last year, but in the few weeks before Christmas it increased and now the works are in full swing. It is expected that the peak will continue for the next 13 weeks. As a result of continued dry weather some farmers in the Wanganui district have been forced to send their lambs into the works earlier than usual. It is expected that if present conditions are prolonged more lambs will be arriving daily at the works and it may be difficult to cope with them. The works are handling about the same number of lambs as they were this time last season.