FREEZING WORKS DISPUTE
FAT STOCK MARKET PARALYSED
[by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH. January 12. Work proceeded at all the Canterbury freezing works to-day at the reduced rate entailed by tile companies’ order that the rate of killing must be four an hour for every slaughterman. This reduced rate of operation necessarily involves a reduction in staffs, and, in all, a hundred and forty-four men have received notice. Stall's may be still further reduced. Meanwhile, the effect of this disturbance of trade lias utterly paralysed tile fat stock market. The yarding for the Addington stock sale to-morrow will’be far short of the normal stock entry as export buyers are not operating and farmers are keeping their fat stock on the farms. Two country sales were abandoned altogether to-day.
There have been light rains which will help the drying pastures and possibly save the farmers from calamitous losses which, might have resulted from the arresting of the meat export industry, but the trouble lias already embarrassed innnv of them sorely.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1926, Page 3
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169FREEZING WORKS DISPUTE Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1926, Page 3
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