THE MEAT INDUSTRY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 218, 9 June 1919, Page 8

THE MEAT INDUSTRY

i .. FREEZING AND LOADING..... | \By Telegraph—Special Correspondent.? North, June 7. At a meeting of the Farmers' Union to- \ day, when the question of- lack 'of'freezing J space was mentioned, 3[r. Pearce said ,that ; 'from investigations made in, Wei-' i lington.,b.y lliimself, the trouble lay with the: Labour "lawn. One freezing, works . at present was only putting through 2000 i head per day when it was capable of \ 5000. He had .watched the loading; of the |, boats and as far as he could see the only ■ man on the wharf who was doing any sweating was the ■one who was selling , newspapers. Thez2_wns plenty of space : to spare, but what was'wanted was men . to kill the stock and load it. The speaker also advocated better facilij ties for loading frozen meat from the ! trains to the boats. The present method' of dumping ,on the wharf was unneces- ! sary as well as uiihygienic. In this he was supported by several :' other- .members, one of whom remarked i th'atihe had seen a sling of meat (lumped I oh' tb\tho' wharf, which apparently was j- unswept.

| v ; : EXPORT OF WOOL: : ; ! .For eleven-months of the .New Zealand ' wool year,- : which ends Juno-30, ; .'thG; exports-from the Dominion, aocording toI ! Dalgety. and _.Co., were , 008,472 bales, against -335,459 bales for the correspond. i ing period of -1917-18, and 518,721 bales |. wpfe';'sold,'.as. against'sso,s26 bales last I year. ■.