122 THE HIGH COST OF LIVING 



Arrangements are made for pushing and advertising 

 the colony's wines.^ 



Abattoirs are also owned by the states or the 

 cities as they are all over Europe. In 1908 slaugh- 

 tering-yards were built at Port Adelaide, with a 

 capacity of 8,000 lambs per day and cold-storage 

 facilities for 20,000 carcasses. The poultiy export 

 department did an interstate trade of $600,000 in 

 1907 in addition to $100,000 worth sent to New 

 Zealand and $10,000 to England. In 1908 the prof- 

 its of the slaughtering and freezing plants, after 

 allowing all expenses, were $8,700, nearly all of 

 which was on the refrigerator-plants. The com- 

 modities sold by the export department of South 

 Australia in 1909 were as follows : lamb and mutton, 

 276,119 carcasses; wine, 55,618 gallons; fruit, 153,- 

 904 cases; eggs, 51,943 dozen; honey, 95,468 

 pounds; oranges, 1,645 cases; lemons, 400 cases; 

 besides poultry. The total export value in that 

 year was $1,414,086.^ 



In July, 1913, the city of Adelaide opened at 

 Port Adelaide one of the largest and most extensive 

 abattoirs in the world. The total area of the 

 land belonging to the slaughter-houses is 626 acres. 

 "Belonging to the markets are seventeen large 

 motor-lorries, with specially constructed, isolated 

 van bodies, which deliver at the butchers' shops" 



^ State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand, Wm. P. Reeves, 

 vol. I, p. 383. 



2 Australia's Awakening, W. G. Spence, p. 458. 



