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farmer, as well as the leading share they had borne in the 

 advancement of New Zealand. 



" Well, these forty-one works have a ' killing capacity ' of 

 130,300 sheep and 3590 cattle per day ! How full a provision 

 this is for the country's requirements will be understood when 

 it is noted that were the full ' killing capacity ' put in operation 

 for anything distantly approaching to full time, say 250 days in 

 the year, it would suffice to put through the killing rooms 

 32.575,000 sheep and lambs, and 897,500 cattle, or about one- 



Stud Romneys on MotutabAj West Coast, Auckland Pkovince, Noeth 



Island, N.Z. 



third more of the former than there were sheep alive in the 

 Dominion (24,830,328) in 1916. along with three-fourths of the 

 number of cattle alive at the present time, outside the dairy 

 herds of three-quarters of a million cows. Again, the storage 

 space provided at the works is equal to 4.647.000 sheep of 

 60 lbs. each, or equal to about two-thirds of the year's export 

 of sheep and lambs. These are fanciful ways of putting the 

 matter, no doubt, but they give a striking idea of the vast 

 equipment that has been provided for carrying on the trade 



' l The position, then, is that the country is splendidly 

 equipped with killing and freezing power and with storage 



