THE SLAUGHTERMEN

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 February 1913, Page 5

THE SLAUGHTERMEN

TIM'ARC WORKS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) TIM-ABU, Last Night, Both the local meat works 'will restart to-morrow morning with free labour. Plenty of stock is offeiing, and no difficulty *is anticipated m carrying on to the end. of the season." The local Fellmongers' Union has decided to handle pelts, irrespectively of how the killing boards are manned. POSITION IN HAWKE'S BAY. HASTINGS, Last Night. The work of the new butchers at the local freezing works continues to improve. t nnd some very good tallies are being recorded. There are thirteen butchers on the boards at Papipaki. Yesterday the highesttally was 54. Sixteen men were slaughtering to-day, and eleven hundred and seventy-live .slieep were put through at Tomoana yesterday. The situation in regard to the strike was discussed at a meeting of the Hawked Bay Sheep-Owners' Union this afternoon. The meeting was not oneu to the press; t but at the coiiclufion tl:i.') secretary stated, that the following resolution had been unanimously passed : —"That- this meeting of sheep-owners approves* of tho stand taken up by the freezing ' companies i>:i regard to the strike of slaughtermen, and proposes to sup- ! port the companies to their utmost, in I the event of their active support be- | ing required."