SLAUGHTERING STOCK.
•A NEW SYSTEM.
g ' (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON,. last niglit. (i dnspector of the Society' for - 1 c Prevention or Cruelty to Animals-, - S ivc£: particulars of .a new system of • slaughtering cattle adopted at the meat Company's Works, Ngah-au-ranga. He says the animals were dnveil one by one into a narrow run boarded in at the side, and with, a- ' small .platform erected just over the •backs of the beasts. On the platform a man was stationed, arid he stur.nned each beast with .a heavy; hammer. One side of the run was then lifted, and the- carcase ro’Jcd
out on its side, and was at TyS» put through the final stages- 1 ‘c.^J operation occupies from frn. minutes from t.he time th?i— matt, takes his position over the beast unA til if is filially hoisted away. The j Inspector is of the opinion that theft new. method is quicker and more/' humane than the old style of gpear-y i ing or spiking, and ho considers .it a I great, improvement! and highly coin- ' mc-iidablCi ;. , - . . - 7
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1416, 29 March 1905, Page 2
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178SLAUGHTERING STOCK. Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1416, 29 March 1905, Page 2
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