PUBLIC ABATTOIRS.
To the Editor. . Sir,—Your contemporary the 'Times' this morning has a sub-leader advocating warmly the views of the deputation that waited on the Mayor on the above subject. Now, your paper being essentially a working man's paper, and one that takes up the cause of the public instead of the interests of the monied few or the upper ten—Heaven save the mark !—as they are called here, it follows, as a matter of course, that your pages should be the vehicle of exposing the great wrong the public would suffer if the views of the deputation were carried into effect.
His "Worship says :—" What you want is this, for the Corporation to insist that, in case it does not construct abattoirs, all the slaughtering for the City of Dnnedin shall be done by the company." What a most iniquitous thing this would be. Another monopoly, another waterworks difficulty. I can understand the erection of of abbatoirs by a public company to have many recommendations, and I can understand it being a perfectly legitimate thing on the part of the company to get the Corporation to undertake not to erect abattoirs themselves and compelling slaughtermen to use them in opposition to the company. But there it should end. If the representatives of the public erected abattoirs, and compelled all slaughtermen to use them, whatever defects, hardships, or grievances the publio or the slaughtermen had, they could force their representatives to r medy them, but not so with a public company. Give tbem exclusive powers, such as is sought for, the public will be in their hands, and if the latter snffer the Corporation will be compe'led, as in the case of the Gas Works and Waterworks, to buy the company's privileges, works, and ground at their own price, or by arbitration, if that word suits better, which just comes to the Fame thing, as witness the Princes street widening, &c. Let there be free trade in slaughtering as well as in everything else, providing the slaughtermen erect their abbatoirs in such Slaoes as not to inconvenience the publio. Ir Main might well say it is not a job. Suspicion haunts the guilty mind. Whoever I have spoken to says it is nothing else. Verily we want Thatcher back again. I should suggest that a public meeting be held to consider the whole question, so that the public will not have their rights signed away by their representatives. Again 1 say, no monopolies.—l am, &c, John Bull, j Dunedin, Sept. 6. i
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Evening Star, Issue 4223, 8 September 1876, Page 4
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422PUBLIC ABATTOIRS. Evening Star, Issue 4223, 8 September 1876, Page 4
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