PROSPECTS BRIGHT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1913, Page 8

PROSPECTS BRIGHT

Questioned with regard to the companies' advertisement, Mr. \V. H. Tripe (secretary of the Gear Company) stated that tho prospects of re-opening were bright. rt The applications up to the present are sufficiently promising to give us every hope of making a start some time next week." SHEDS IN THE COUNTRY. What about labourers— is the company assured in that respect? The answer was to the effect that no trouble Was anticipated in that direction. It is understood that the Slaughtermen's Federation holds vieAvs quit© to the contrary. Mr. Tripe Avould not say Avhether or not there Avere any unionists applying for hooks at Petone. There is no doubt /but that Avhile the sheds in the country afe working steadily, the butchers are (and of necessity) slow. Mr. Foster states that this is the case at Tokomaru, but, he added, the dressing of the carcase was exceptionally good and clean. We are informed from another > source that the tallies on the ( East Coast are still small : — At Paid Paid seven men killed 120 in a day ; at Tomoana twenty-eight killers accounted for 500, Avhile at the North British, ten butchers' (eight Maoris and tAvo Avhites) put through but ]?0. As mentioned elseAvhere, the Waitara shed is again Avorking, and Mr. Foster received Avord to-day that there Avere 66venteen butchers operating at Tokomaru, and that practically a full board would be available next Aveek.