1970
26 January 1970
Success story for the Mudgee Abattoir
The critics have been floored and the future of the Mudgee Abattoir looks bright following a 30 per cent increase in cattle kill in 1969, over the previous year.
“No-one ever thought the Abattoir would reach this stage,” Ald. C. Croan told Thursday night’s meeting of the Abattoir County Council, during discussion of the production manager’s report.
At the beginning of the meeting, the re-elected Chairman (Cr. Wal Evans), who was re-elected unopposed, told the meeting:
“We had fun and games in the first few years.
“Some people said the abattoir was going to be a “white elephant.”
The facts and figures of the abattoir’s progress, left holders of this opinion “red-faced.”
The abattoir has flourished so well since its opening about five years ago that it is now “bursting at the seams,” in Cr. Evans words.
Future developments at the abattoirs have been planned, and the council will use $275,000 for extensive extensions.
In 1968, 10,018 cattle were killed at the abattoirs.
But in 1969, 14,953 were killed, an increase of 49 percent.
Cr. Evans told the meeting.
“The two boning rooms have been the key to the abattoir’s success.
“We could even handle another boning room.
“Certain other abattoirs have not included boning rooms, and have found themselves in financial difficulties.”
In 1968, 323,208 sheep were killed, and in 1969 the figures rose to 363,618 killed, representing an increase of 12.5 percent.
The pig kill increase was 3.2 percent, with 5,868 in 1968 and 6,060 in 1969.
Total “sheep kill units” for 1968 were 384,662 and in 1969 rose to 458,927, an overall 19 percent increase.
The total of all animals killed at the Abattoirs are calculated in “sheep kill units.”
This unit measure is mainly used for slaughtering tallies and gives the operators a common denomination and overall comparison of the kill.
A sheep is equal to one, while the cattle are equal to 5 sheep killed, and pigs equal to 1¾ sheep.
Boning production in 1969 represented 47 per cent of the total kill production last year, with Charles David Pty. Ltd. killing 151,385 sheep in 1969, compared with 125,013 in 1968.
A. W. Anderson Meat Packing Co. began boning in June, 1969, and killed 22,500 sheep and 9,154 cattle for export for the year.
Meat packed for export for all of 1969 was 1,975 tons of boneless mutton and 655 tons of boneless beef compared to 1,036 tons of boneless mutton and 12 tons of boneless beef in 1968.
For 1969, 1,021 tons of tallow, 1,434 tons of meat-meal were produced compared to 530 tons of tallow and 1,021 tons of meatmeal in 19681
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2003
12 December 2003
Abattoir sale is on hold
The Mudgee Regional Abattoir liquidators say they are waiting at the finish line with six buyers vying to be the winning tenderer, but cannot cross the line and finish the sale of the facility.
Prentice Parbery Barilla officials say they have six buyers waiting - four of them complying with the tender - but the sale of the Abattoir cannot go forward because of legal problems.
"We are waiting to be given the power to deal with them," partner Andrew Smith said yesterday.
"We are just sitting here waiting."
Mr Smith denied reports that Dubbo's Fletcher International Exports was named the highest complying bidder, and that the Abattoir is actually sold.
"A property isn't sold until you have exchanged contracts," he said, adding that all tenderers have been issued with contracts.
"And we can't move on that until given the power to do so," Mr Smith said.
"We need the power to sell," he reiterated.
That power, Mr Smith said, needs to be given to the liquidators by the stakeholders involved - NSW Government, local government and financiers.
Mr Smith said there are a number of issues that need to be addressed and that the firm was talking to the parties responsible.
"In selling it we want to know we are protected," he said.
Mr Smith said the liquidators want to know when the contracts are sold that they have the support of the stakeholders involved.
The stakeholders have been very cooperative, according to Mr Smith, who particularly cited feedback from Mudgee Shire Council. He said the liquidators need to know those stakeholders fully support the sale outcomes.
"These are the things no one is talking about and we want to know what will occur," he said.
Mr Smith said it is the unknown things that may affect the liquidators and they want to know they are protected.
"We have dragged it all to this point and we want to know where we are going," he said. "We have got to the finishing line. We just want to cross it."
Mr Smith said because the deal involves the sale of the assets of the County Council, there are many legal issues that need to be made clear by the government before the sale can go ahead2 .
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