WAINGAWA WORKS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 September 1933, Page 4

WAINGAWA WORKS

NEW SEASON APPROACHES. BETTER PRICES ANTICIPATED. Providing there is no set-back to the present rate of progress of flocks on the score of bad weather during the next week or two, it is anticipated that the new season’s operations at the Waingawa Freezing Works of Messrs Thos. Borthwick and Sons, Ltd., will open on Monday, 16th October. Last year the opening of the season was delayed all over the Dominion owing to the strike of slaughtermen. The chain system, which superseded the solo system, will again be in operation at the Waingawa Works, but in a much improved form. New .chain equipment has taken the place of the more or less temporary arrangements of last season. Under the new system, each man of a line makes a particular cut on each carcase suspended on a moving chain as it comes abreast of him. This method does away with an enormous amount of heavy labour connected with slaughtering by the solo system. In view of the present upward trend in the primary produce markets, it is anticipated that the opening prices to farmers for their stock will be on a higher level than those ruling at the same period last year, when the opening figure for lamb in this district was 4d. The lambing season, which is now approaching a close, has been a particularly favourable one for Wairarapa sheep breeders. Percentages, according to reports, have been on a high level and mortality low. Recent rains have benefited pastures, and with a return to mild conditions the lambs should come in to Waingawa in tip-top condition.