GISBORNE ABATTOIRS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10571, 24 January 1906, Page 2

GISBORNE ABATTOIRS.

SIX MONTHS' WORKING. "It will be pleasant for the people of ;he district to know that the purveyors >f meat ure supplying ior consumption neat of very high quality," remarked the manager and inspector of the abattoirs m Uis lust report to tlie Borough Council ;ast July. lhe public slaughterhouse on the Waikanae was opened on June Ist, md November 30th saw the completion 3f a satisfactory first half-year. Mr Neale's initial report showed that one pig liad been wholly condemned for generalised tuberculosis, three cattle partially condemned ior the same cause, and a sheep for septic pleurisy, being five animals condemned out ot a total of 1018 slaughtered during the month. This low percentage „ diseased stock presented at tho abattoirs has been continued throughout the half-year, the highest number of condemnations being seven m August. In the following month there were no rejections. On these returns Gisborne district must be accounted one of the freest places m the colony from diseases common to stock. No doubt a good deal Df tills freedom from condemnation is due lo the fact that young stock are being killed, and old dairy cows are not sent to the borougn slaughterhouse. The abattoirs' appliances continue tq work satisfactorily, and the staff of butchers, etc., now number four. Besides the head slaughterman's house, two cottages liave been completed for tne men, _id a third will be finished on Saturday, which will make the abattoir buildings complete The totals of animals slaughtered m the six months were : Cattle (cows and bullocks) 935, calves 13, sheep and lambs 4706, pigs 692. For the five months ended October 31st, the monthly returns received by the Borough Council show that the fees paid by the butchers within the abattoirs area amounted to £608 5s 3d, the amounts m the various months being a s follow:— June £118 3s, July £123 Is 9d, August £133 Os 3d, September £115 15s 9d. October £118 4s 6d. Following are particulars of the number of animals slaughtered monthly and the condemnations: — June: Cattle 154, calves 2, sheep and lambs 768. pigs 94. Condemned : One pig for generalised tuberculosis, 3 cattle's neads for pharyngeal tuberculosis, and half a sheep for septic pleurisy. July: Cattle 166, calf 1, pigs 118, sheep 767, lambs 2. One cow was wholly condemned for tuberculosis, and another cow and two bullocks partially, while one slueep was condemned for 6eptic pleurisy. August: Cattle 172, pigs 149, sheep 821. Three cows, one bullock and three pigs were wholly condemned on account of tuberculosis. September : Cattle 151, calves 4, sheep and lambs 709, pigs and suckers (2) 127. In this month there were no condemnations. October: Cattle 150, calves 4, pigs 107, sheep 726, lambs 80. One bullock and one pig were wholly condemned, and three bullocks partially, for tuberculosis. • November: Cattle 142, calves 2. sheep 700. lambs 133. One pig was condemned wholly, and two partially for tuberculosis, and a sheep for septic pleurisy.