SHIPPING SPACE FILLED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17408, 5 November 1930, Page 6

SHIPPING SPACE FILLED

EARLY LAMB EXPORTS THE SEASON’S GOOD START The space allotted for the Haiti freezing works’ killings on the s.s. Tainui * for the shipment of early lamb and mutton has been filled. The works opened on Monday, and,. including to-day’s operations, 40CX) sheep have been killed. Lamb slaughtering I Will commence to-morrow, the bookings | for the first shipment comprising 7000 j lambs, which, wifi be put through by the end of the week. .. ..... "G ;i 'Hie works will continue next week, when killing will commence for shipment by the Rangitane, which is due in Gisborne on November 24, and is expecti ed to arrive in England on January 6. | The Tainui ia due in England on December 25. jm | With both Gisborne works .last Monday, the freezing season here has made an earlier start' than’in Hawke’s Bay, which district is usually a few weeks ahead of Gisborne. Three works in Hawke’s Bay, Tomoana, Whakatu and Pakipaki, are to open to-morrow, but it is not expected that killings will reach their height until the first week in DecemberEven then, work is expected to be somewhat slack unless warm rains with an j absence of drying winds bring about a i quick growth of new feed. The Hawke’s I Bay, season has been particularly unfavorable, and a new growth in the A pastures is badly needed to put stock in the best killing condition. | According to a Hastings message to the Dominion, some authorities main- , tain that the mortality among sheep in Hawke’s Bay this season has reached nearly 250,000 head, and that the season’s lambing will do no more than make up the losses, leaving the district with no more stock than it possessed last season. It is known that each of two sheep stations lost 1000 head of ewes and lambs, and there is no doubt that whatever the total losses have been, they will have a considerable effect on the wool and meat industries. The position in Hawke's Bay is by no means grave, but it is regrettably true, that the prolonged winter weather and • the' absence of warm rains have resulted in lowering the quality of stock for killing.