NO RESTRICTIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1941, Page 5

NO RESTRICTIONS

ON KILLINGS AT AUCKLAND FREEZING WORKS STATEMENT BY COMPANY REPRESENTATIVES. STORAGE NOW FILLING RAPIDLY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 19. No restrictions on killings at freezing works in the Auckland district have so far been imposed, stated representatives of two companies when commenting on the report that in Southland and Otago operations were being confined to fat lambs. “We are carrying on with the usual killing routine,” stated an official. No forward advice as to what might be expected about future killings was available and works were simply carrying on from day to day. Auckland was probably more fortunate with storage space, he continued. Its season was much earlier than the South Island, and on that account carcases killed at the beginning of the season had been shipped, whereas less shipping had been available for the southern districts. According to reports, storage in Auckland is filling fairly rapidly and stocks of meat are well above that of the corresponding date last year. Like the southern producers, those in Auckland are awaiting the outcome of the deliberations of the special committee on the meat export position. HAWKE’S BAY POSITION SAME AS IN OTHER DISTRICTS. HOPES OF HANDLING YEAR’S OUTPUT. HASTINGS, March 19. "Freezing works in Hawke’s Bay are in no better position than those in other districts in New Zealand,” said Mr. A. Kirkpatrick, manager of Nelson’s (N.Z.), Ltd., in an interview today. Commenting on reports from Southland and Wairarapa that an outcry is being raised by farmers about killing restrictions, being imposed in those areas, he said that works in Hawke's Bay had been carrying on by restricting killings, but that had been done in co-operation with producers and buying interests. “There is every reason to hope that by patience and co-operation the works will be able to handle all this year’s output of lamb, mutton and beef,” he said. “No district has been more hard-pressed, however, than Hawke’s Bay, and it would be wrong to assume that because there have been no noisy protests there have been no difficulties to overcome.”