FREEZING WORKS CLOSING DOWN

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXX, Issue 11189, 3 March 1915, Page 2

FREEZING WORKS CLOSING DOWN

Per Press Association.

Auckland, March 2.

At the very, height of a phenomenal season, comes toe ominous announcement that Auckland trade in frozen meat is at a standstill, and tuat the works at Southdown are to dose down. The Imperial authorities are endeavouring to secure every available carcase in the British Dominions,/ and farmers in the province are fending forward big (quantities of stock, for export, ■but means of transport, concerning which grave fears have been entertained for months past, has how reached a stage of complete inadequacy, and the result is that freezing stores in Auckland can hold no more, and killing operations after to-day will cease. Southdown works are capable of putting through 8000 carcases per day, and at the present time carry about 100,000 carcases, which means that they are stocked to their utmost capacity. After to-day’s killing, theref re, the works will close down. Further advice regarding the Southdown works shows that the works will not actually close down altogether. The works will work half a day to-morrow and on Thursday, then close for four days and resume work intermittently.