BEST KILLING YEAR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17947, 26 November 1932, Page 4

BEST KILLING YEAR

GOOD FREEZING FIGURES HAITI AND TOKOMARU BAY INCREASES ON PREVIOUS• YEAR Discussing the actual results of the last killing season in this district, in the. course of his address to-day to tlio shareholders in the Gisborne Sheepfminers' Frozen Aleat and Mercantile Company, Limited, Air. H. B. Williams, chairman oi' directors, quoted some illuminating figures as to the volume of stock dealt with at the Haiti and Tokomaru Bay works for 1931-32. He was able to report that the operations of the past year had effected a considerable improvement in the company’s position, and. on this subject Air. Williams stated : “Both Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay had exceedingly good killings, which, of course, one could expect after experiencing one of the best, if not the best, fattening seasons this district has had. The following figures speak for thornselves;

Or 60,994 equivalent sheep in favor of the season 1931-32.

Or 61,668 equivalent sheep in favor of the season 1931-32.

GISBORNE 1930-31 1931-32 Sheep 284,950 296,636 Lambs 267,651 318,613 Cattle 7,511 9,292 Calves 8.299 463 Pifis 1,322 1,563 Kquiv. sheep ... 670,274 731,268

dheep TOKOMABU BAY 1930-31 66,228 1931-32 109,553 Lambs .. . . 29,547 59,798 Cattlo • •• •• 1,486 1,175 886 Calves 1 Pigs 891 198 Equiv. sheep .. . 118,914 180,582