'A company has recently been formed for the scientific killing of pigs and accelerated service of delivery of the carcases to the retail vendors in the Settlement. At present the work i carried out in promiscuous manner and the primitive method of delivery, besides being a nuisance to vehicular and passenger trafic, is certainly not conductive to cleanliness. Messrs, 0. A. Van Tricht & Ca. of Shanghai, who are mainly responsible for this new departure, are now erecting a fine building on the Kashing Road at the junction of the Hongkew Creek and a tributary, from their own design, and when this is finished there will be facilities enough tw handle all the pigs that come to the Settlement. There are two slaughter-houses side by side and between is the hanging-space. The receiving yard is capable of holding eight hundred hiead and five hundred can be disposed of daily between the hours of4and10 am. The two houses each mage tem which will render the surroundings as wholesome as is possible. The position of the premises will enable the dealers to float their cargoes right alongside the wharf which is to be erected, and closed vans will be used to carry out distribution of the carcass retail purveyors in the Set Altogether over mow of been utilised and the building which is of brick and stone-tueed consists, beside the slaughter houses, of extensive series of otlices for the large clerical staff necessary to supervise the work, and living qua ters for the butchers, No detail appar ly has been overlooked by the contractors and the native population should certainly be benefited by the innovation.
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