HUGE LOSSES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 66, 9 November 1931, Page 3

HUGE LOSSES

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N.5.W. GOVERNMENT'S CONTROL OF HOMEBUSH ABATTOIR PROBABLY £100,000 A YEAR

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Rec. Nov. 8, 5.5 p.m. SYDNEY, Saturday. The State Government authorised an investigation of the operations at the Homebush abaitoirs and the result is a sensational report by the investigator on behalf of the city, Mr A. G. Noble, who alleges a startling wastage of Government money in the construction of saleyards, which were then abandoned. This loss alone amounted to £190,000, besides smaller wastages by which the annual loss on the undertaking will probably reach £100,000. Mr. Noble mentioned charges that the Australian meat niarket is being detrimentally manipulated by foreign companies "wdth Argentine affiliations. He recommends .that Homebush should be managed co-operatively. A Bill will probably be introduced before Christmas taking the enterprise out of the Government's hands and vesting it in the producers on a co-operative basis. ' Mr. Noble points out that the present marketing system is so unsatisfactory to producers that they are compelled to send 2,000,000 sheep annually to Victoria where they are killed and exported.