The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1895. A PUBLIC ABATTOIR.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 85, 7 October 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1895. A PUBLIC ABATTOIR.

Theee exists in the minds of some of the ratepayers an idea that the Borough Council would do well to consider the advisableness of adopting the Abattoirs Act of 1§94 iv Feilding. It is provided that the local authority, when the killing is for local consumption, may erect one or more abattoirs within the limits of the city, borough, or county, or outside such limits with the consent of the local authority where it is proposed to establish the abattoir, which, for the pnrposes of the Act, shall be deemed within the limits of the Borough, and shall be under the sole control and supervision of the Borough. Any expenses may be defrayed out of the funds of the Borough, and local authorities may raise money by loan for the constructing of an abattoir. The proposal to raise such money shall be deemed to be carried if the votes given in favor exceed the number given against the same. Of course tb.3 Act does not interfere with the slaughter bouses erected and in actual use before the coming into operation of the Act.

The revenue for the maintenance of the public abattoirs is raised by stallages, rents, and tolls, which must be gazetted and approved by the Governor. The local authority may let for any term not exceeding three years all rents or tolls payable under the Act. Nothing in the Act protects the local authority from an information for nuisance or any other legal proceeding. The local authority may make bye-laws for inspection, prevention of cruelty; registration and licensing of butchers, slaughterers, or purveyors ; sanitary construction, cleansing, drainage, water supply, etc. ; for preventing the supply to the inhabitants of the district with meat which is diseased or unfit for human consumption, and for the destruction of such meat ; for preventing and prohibiting the sale or attempted sale of meat not supplied from abattoirs or slaughterhouses under the Act. The Governor, on the recommendation of the local authority, may appoint Inspectors, who shall be under the control of the local authority, which will also fix and pay the remuneration of such Inspector. Every keeper of an abattoir shall keep a book in which he shall enter a description of all large and small cattle slaughtered, with marks, brouds, and other particulars. Such book to be open for inspection on payment of a small fee. Other necessary powers arc given not necessary to enumerate here. The great obstacle to the erection of such an establishment for Feildiug lies in tbe fact that it would be necessary to raise the required funds by loan, any proposal in which direction would certainly not iind favor with the ratepayers at the present time. However, it will be as well for the Council to keep the subject steadily in view.