A NEW LOCAL INDUSTRY.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12019, 21 August 1907, Page 6 (Supplement)

A NEW LOCAL INDUSTRY.

BOILING DOWN AND MANURE

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f^The establishment of the Municipal Abattoir, with the'oonsequent inspection by a' veterinary export of nil animals slaughtered, was a reform stop that has been fully justified during the seven years that have- elapsed since the Abbatoir was erected. "This was a bygen'C reform, and ono in which Nelson led the way, bat from t\ commercial point of view during the whole period: of the working of the Abattoir, a shocking tvasta of most valuable products ha 3 been going on, aceompauiod, too, by an ever-present source of;J disquietude. The waste was the disposal of the heads, hoofs, etc., of the animals slaughtered by burying in the paddocks adjacent to the Abattoir, and the disquietude arose from the possibility of some of the offal being used to feed pigs. The by-products \off slaughtering wJrks are so valuable for the manufacture of fertilisers that is is really extraordinary that huodseds of tons have been allowed to waste year after year when the demawad for the manufactured article has" been so great that orders could not always be filled.

Mr F. W. Fairey, of Fairey Bros., the well-known butchers, has taken in hand the manufacture of the Abattoir residuals into ' fertilisers, the process of which also yields oher valuable by-products, tallow, neat's foot oil, etc.

Mr Fairey has made agreements with all, save one, of the butchers, whose animals are slaughtered at the Abattoir, to take all the residuals save the skin. Also he takes all condemned animals. On Parker's road (leading from the Annesbrook-Rocks Koad toward "the golf links). Mr Fairey has a 33---acre section, with a building, in which he has placed a boilling-down and manure manufacturing plant. He has been fortunate in securing the services of Mr Geo. Matthews as working manager. Mr Matthews has had large experience of the work, having for eight years been with the New Zealand Meat Preserving Company, Timaru, engaged in similar work. Mr Matthews personally attended to the erection of the plant, which was manufactured at the Anchor Foundry; and ho speaks very highly of the faithful manner in which the plant has been constructed.