OUR MEAT SUPPLY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 10 April 1907, Page 2

OUR MEAT SUPPLY.

CHOI'S AND CHANCES. Tlw mutability of the public taste for moat is shown hy the annual report of ho manner of the New Plymouth ab•i loin., Air T. J. Kcukes, presented on .Monday to the Borough Council. There >as been an undeniable cry during the «,r lor tho roast beef of old England, d"<! t<> supply the demand the death do,, evs„t the U'aiwakaiho ,, I1S| „!S , -«-;■! 'attic, or 308 more than w,re re. 'tuned to satisfy the craving for the u.ore solnl food in the previous year Perhaps the wholesale killing o ll' of calves made the people shy of real, or per. haps the farmers supplied their tow friends gratis wH]l lhis m £ grow l, of population notwlfhstandng the butchers handled only 170 calves ■Mho yoar just closed, as agaimt 140 in the previous twelve months The rise m the price of sheep, and the consequent, retail price of mutton, may "««•' count for the fallingoff of 38 in the nmnber of sheep slaughtered, 0712 this year; or it may be that lamb was more plontifu,. The number of sheep that met the butcher's knife at the abattoirs before reaching maturity was 1 !!);,'„« an increase of 21(i on thu lambs slaughtered la lt.oo. Tbu relative of OKI ami young bovines are reversed in the woolly animals, calves jUiowini.' a decrease and lambs an increase (Jlt tle an increase and sheep a doci«i»e.' chops and changes again. People consumed port from 14(12 pig, k n;, rl llt tll(1 ,„„„;. cipal slaughterhouso. m increase of "09 \ for 'the year.

Ihe total meat appetite of the New fymoulli public can be gauged from the tact that 12,10s and small cattle were killed ,|„rlng the year, showing a growth of 703 on the whole. Despite .■he unsavoury revelations of a few months ago the people showed .an enjianced desire for "extras, 1 ' such as tripes calves heads, m a ox !wti , vllich jn . creased |„ lsj)<), or 17!) more than in the ja'cvlous year. Included in these totals, ■lowevcr, are the beasts slaughtered for ■sport, as follows: Cows 4(19, an increase of 141; oxen OH, Increase 37; bulla !■»>. decrease 1; calves 20, decrease 83; in all-round increase of 04. The rigid ■ostein of inspection at the abattoirs sivoil.us from consuming 77 cattle that u-re sent m unfit for Human eonsmnploii, 2(i more than in the year pFe/v---->us. There, waft no calves c'ondO'Vned iixl no lambs, but !) -sheen and U , t \4 nled to satisfy the inspector that thev i" vo ,. f,t 1° <**• a '"' they were sent to He digester for the value of the honest I hey might give. Altogether 100 easts were condemned, an increase of e'm, CS dn( ' for th o vear were : I'i/Vm' 1 T U M 0 «/, a total ■ ■l4B 1" Wlloctablo; out. ol tais -1481 12/0 has been paid in, an increase ■ " ""' s'fy of .-cm 18/10. The only ■' oney outstamlmg at the 31st of March f as £W 19/B the fees and renls for 1 iai month, and an old account of •>/<; lie report concludes :-"Thovo is to be aced to the credit, of the abattoir ae- ' "int do for 3000 yards of metal at * ■ per yard royalty. X would advise l o Council to roof the cattle and sheen [ L™g the. coming yea.' as ic i s vo ! 1 vrton ho stock, (especially the sheep) V ni.fr he winter months standing «■ i

and oou ln th « yards. The work dmiK tho your has increased and we arc nmv working to the full n.-.itt „re |st sl n and ut times have. ~„>,,. , hl , n |onn do, and w , ,„,,,,, (I . iys jt , s '"; n p I 'ctoro we have I would t> tho Council that they give mo a,™,! to learn Ho co.iUl.di. a lot in washing ' keeping things tidy arouiuAl ° , touan ( la,hH», llroVOTln( , ( . oll!(I ' he could help carry o„ ' tho ,