AUCKLAND ABATTOIRS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 193, 4 November 1927, Page 12

AUCKLAND ABATTOIRS

POWERS UNDER NEW Njjl SOME OF CLAUSES QUEJUE| (THE SI X'S Parliamentary Septet;. Wm WELLINGTON'. Frith: §l' Has this Bill been promoted by the Auckland City Council i,fH endeavour to avoid taking a noii'H ratepayers in connection with itsmrflS holding paddocks at the abattoir® asked Mr. 44. J. Jordan. Manuka; fl the House of Representatives tB evening when the Slaughtering JB Inspection Amendment Bill--- ■■ consideration. Mr. Jordan said that the City <il was in the peculiar pogjtioc owning abattoirs in the district rfaH other local authority, and if were enacted the council would powered to buy land for stock docks without approaching the J' payers for approval. He contoaH that the expenditure of such morH without the special sanction of ratepayers concerned was not Mount Wellington district »BB which the abattoirs are situated. iBB fast developing into a residential and people should have a say aBB operations in their own area. The Hon. O. J. Hawken, MinisterHH. Agriculture, refuted the Mr. H. T. Armstrong, Christdsßß: East, that inspection of freezing works alike was not u flß< should be. This statement would damaging to our reputation as porting country. The meat of this country was as good ax from any other part of the while no meat unfit for human sumption was allowed to be within the Dominion or exported. did not say that farm meat was spectcd. but that killed at the toirs and freezing works was qoi; aB for consumption. The inspection tem was unequalled in the world. The Hill was road a second referred to the Agricultural and Committee.