ABATTOIRS FOR WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1315, 13 May 1897, Page 39

ABATTOIRS FOR WELLINGTON.

T« BE ESTABLISHED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. At the meeting of the City Oofensil last week the Abattoirs Committee fepotted that they held a meeting soon after theif appointment in September, 1895, and had the’ advantage of an interview with Mr H. S. Fish, then May of. of Dunedin, who gave them very valuable info'tniatio'il as to what had been done in Dunedin with rSCpedt to the establishment of public abattoirs 7 tliete; Mr Fish stated that the land had cost them .£650, and that >t was estimated that the buildings would cost- <£4ooo. It was further festiriiate'd that tho annual working expenses vte'uld be J§oo, which, with the interest on the amount b dri-awed, would be repaid by the fees , front the persons using the abattoirs'; The committee also obtained information front Sydney 1 ,• where the abattoirs are under the control cf the’ Board of Health, and where extensive alterations and improvements are being made. - . ' Oh account of the projects then in hand for the establishment of public baths and public markets,- tho committee thought it expedient to defer further action for a time. As tho Thermion Baths are no'sV Completed, and as there now seems iio pressing necessity for the establishment of markets/, the . committee are of opiuiori that the project lot establishment of public abattoirs should now be fa Ren ip hand, the great and pressing necessity for their establishment being admitted on all sides. To this end the committee recommend : —(1) That tho Council resolves that public abattoirs shall be established as soon as possible’ ; atid (2) that this committee be em'po'wered tc' make nil enquiries as to site, cost fintl all other particulars; so as to enable tlie Ccfeueii to decide upon the best manner to carry out the' project. A discussion ensued, all ibe' sneakers agreeing that abattoirs were urgently required, but that they could not be undertaken until the Te Aro baths had been erected. Eventually the recommendations of the committee were adopted, and Council lot Lingard’g name added to the Abattoirs Committee.