Mr Cargill remarked that the deputation wished to know whether or not, in the erection of abbatoirs, they would be acting contrary to the wishes of the Corporation, provided that they made suitable arrange ments for working under the Corporation. If this could not be done, and if the Cor poration found it necessary to take the abbatoirs into its own hands, then the Com pany had no wish to enter into competition with it, but would hand over the whole con cern at a fair valuation. His own impression was that it would be a great relief to the Corporation to have abbatoirs and slaughter yards conducted by a Company, while reserving to itself the right of making neces sary regulations for its management. He believed that the site proposed by the Com pany, accessible as it was by rail, would be found to be the only available one near Dunedin.
The Mayor said that if the deputation were to forward to him a^statemunt of the matter in the words Mr Cargill had used, he would lay it before the City Council, and the entire subject would be fully considered. BJe was not prepared to deny that this matter would be better carried out by a company than by the Corporation, as the latter at present had a considerable amount of busi ness in hand, aud it was daily increasing. He quite agreed with the deputation aa to the necessity of these abbatoirs, and, speak ing tor himself, he considered that the pro posals now submitted could nob be more reasonable. The interview then terminated.
