THE ABATTOIR CHANGES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3987, 21 July 1915, Page 4

THE ABATTOIR CHANGES.

BUTCHERS' APPEAL FRFITU>'

Mr F. H. Lawton, secretary o; t!w Poverty Bay Master Butchers' l nion. wrote to the Borough Council at hm evening’s meeting: “Wo desire to appeal, under clause 27 of tho Slaughtering and Inspection Act, against the new killing charges at the Abattoirs, and consider them excessive. The total receipts- since tile abattoirs were opened amount to £17,635, and the expenditure .t° £16,000, showing a profit of £lb3oand not a loss of £605 as stated by the Town Clerk. The difference m our figures as against those of die Town Clerk is that the sum of .£'224 per annum is wrongly charged to expenditure, as the amount has already been charged in the working expensesYour consideration cf these facts wi - greatly oblige.” The Mayor said tho Council did no* recognise the Butchers' Union in aU ' way. The abattoirs had listen erected for all the butchers, and not for any tinion.

Or Bright said that the Butchers Union, had a legal standing, being a properly' registered body. The Mayor: Are they P , Or BrOwn moved that the Butchers Union be informed that the had gone carefully into the que.JHP of tho abattoir fees, and eouhl n° L see its way to alter the charges. public, he said, w din cl get no benetn' if the charges were lowered. f matter was so trivial that it was no worth bothering about. Tho Mayor seconded tho motion. Or Bright moved as an aniendmen that the Master Butchers be informed that their protest would be torwarded to the Minister. . Or Brown: No doubt they have a - ready dbrio this; they did it before. The master butchers had their reme y if they thouglit the charges were v . . , Ci' Brown’s motion was carried.