FALLING AWAY

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12074, 27 February 1925, Page 8

FALLING AWAY

STOCK SENT TO ABATTOIRS. BUTCHERS GO ELSEWHERE. A -decrease In the number of elaugb» teringa at the municipal abattoir is shown in the' report tabled at the City Council meeting last evening.. For December, bullocks totalled 587, a decrease of 39 compared with the same month of. the preceding year, lambs 2921, a decrease of 967; calves, 370, a decrease of 11; pigs, .74, a decrease of 53. For January, the figures were aa follow, the decreases being shown in parentheses; Bullocks, 570 (169); sheep, 4405 (496); lambs, 1407 (494); calves, 359 (36); pigs, 72 (73). The abattoir committee, in their report to the City Council last evening, stated that the reason for the decrease in stock slaughtered at the municipal abattoir was that certain freezing companies outside the Wellington district were supplying the butchers of Wellington with b considerable amount of meat for which the council was receiving no fees. The. Master Butchers’ Association had been asked to inform their members that abattoir fees must be paid on all such meat received; also that it was necessary for tho butchers to forward ‘to the abattoirs manager each week a complete return of such meat received. The, city, solicitor also had notified, the butchers concerned that the fees must he paid i|nd the returns furnished. Up ,to the. present the majority of butphers .had failed to comply with instructions given, and thereby had committed an offence against section 33 of the abattoir by-law. The committee recommended, and the council decided, that notice should he published- through the press to the effect that all butchers who failed to complv with this section of the abattoir by-law.' after a given, date, wduld he proceeded against, and that a-r----thoritv should, also be granted to the citv solicitor to take such action as h* considered necessary.