Stock Slaughtered at Abattoirs.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1941, Page 4

Stock Slaughtered at Abattoirs.

Stock slaughtered at the Master ton Municipal Abattoirs last month included 68 cows, 51 heifers, 35 bullocks, 2 boners, 7 calves. 265 ewes, 369 wethers, 55 lambs, and 123 pigs. Three cows, three sheep and a pig were condemned. Election of Meat Board Members. A resolution that the system for the election of members of the Meat Producers’ Board be altered to the ward system, and also that dairy-farmers and beef producers be granted representation at the election of the board, was adopted by delegates at the Dominion annual conference in Wellington yesterday of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. Municipal Elections. The fact that only 1783 out of 4957 people on the roll voted at the recent local Municipal election was commented on at last night’s meeting of the Masterton Borough Council. The election cost £lB5 and little over 30 per cent of the people voted. “We have had a lot of arguing over the question of whether votes should be indicated on the voting papers by a cross or cancelling out,” said the Mayor, Mr T. Jordan. “It was simply a waste of time. The people didn't bother to vote.”