THE ABATTOIRS QUESTION

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4258, 18 January 1901, Page 5

THE ABATTOIRS QUESTION

The committee appointed by the meeting of butchers and farmers, held at | Johnsonville on Wednesday night, to con-, aider the ad'visableness of instituting public abattoirs in that district, waited! on the Mayor of Wellington yesterday j with a tiew to ascertaining from him if 1 possible how the proposition that the Wellington City Council should delegate 1 to Johnsonvillo’ its powers to erect aoattoirs —the same to be used by the Council—was likely to be received by that body. | Too Mayor conceded that tho abattoirs of Wellington would not be in the city boundary, but ho was of opinion that Johnsonville was too remote to be acceptable to Wellington butchers. ] At last night’s meeting of the- City Council, tho question of .establishing abattoirs for the city came ui> for-con-, siucvatiou on a motion by Councillor Evans, “That the Council take immediate stops to establish an abattoir in accordance with tho provisions’ of the Slaughtering and Meat Inspection Act, 1900/’ Tho Council wont into committee to consider the question, with the result that a committee, composed of Councillors Barter, Murdoch, Townsend and the mover; was appointed to consider the matter and report to the Council in fourteen days.