SPACE IN FREEZING WORKS
PROSPECTS FOR THE SEASON. . The prospects of sufficient space being available in the local freezing works to deal -with the coming season's output have sensibly improved. The estimated killing for Oto.ro ancT Southland is 937,000 sheep and lamb* and 8000 to 10,000 head of cattle. The actual space available in the freezing works, even if no further shipments are made before the stort of the new season, "equivalent to 700,000 freight carcases, assuming that the new method of cutting un is utilised. ~'-,, To prevent congestion, it will be necessary to ship about 300,000 carcases before July, 1918 and there is every prospect that sufficient tonnage will be available to move a much larger quantity than this At the same time, it is very essential that farmers should not rush their stock to the freezing works in the early part of the season. It is to be hoped that it will not be necessary to place any restriction on the slaughtering of live stock, and the maintenance of normal conditions can bo best assured 'by producers holding their stock until it can be slaughtered in the primest possible condition.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3327, 19 December 1917, Page 10
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