MEAT FREEZING WORKS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1207, 16 August 1911, Page 8

MEAT FREEZING WORKS.

; MFLTIPLICATIOX IXADVISABLE. Interesting remarks, regarding the, meat freezing-industry in the Wellington district wove made yesterday at th? annual meetiii" of f.ho 'Wellington M«at Expert Company. Ltd.. by the managing director, Mr. W.'G. foster. In the course of his address. Mr. Foster sail! thai the- quantity of stock manipulated during the past season showed a falling off [mm the previous year, nut this wa-; cliiefly in consequence of the diminution in supplies of fat cattle. There had. however, been quite an appreciable effect from the opening nf the VTaingawa Meat Company's works in tho ■\Vairarapa. • "Opinions, naturally, vary as w the need for this new establishment," said Mr. Foster, "but one filing is certain, viz.: that the multiplication of freezing companies ami their establishments preclude.- the cheapening of working. S'n lons, however, as the former is content to bear the higher cost, probably nothing further can be urged. Already tho eapacitv of the companies operating in tho Wellington district is oqnM to 17.000 carcasses of mutton and lain!) per diem, and tho killing for the season is equal, approximately, to H million carcasses; iinrl this, on the basis of the doily capacity, will provide only 8 s ? days full work for all. Usually, howovcr. the .-onfon runs for about seven or eight months. The rest of Ihe year the capital, and the permanent stall's of the companies are practically non-earning. "But, in spite of this, agitation is rife for the cstflblishinont of further works, bntli.iip.ir. I'j Wellington and in tl-.e country. There can be no question as lo tlir> iniulvisability of further extensions , , unlc,s to meet an increased production— which i- not at pre-cnl; in siglif. , '