I AM all for the new goat abattoir opening in Blayney (“Abattoir snub: Blayney residents give project thumbs down”, CWD, Monday, May 18).
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If Karen Deters, who spoke against the abattoir at the public meeting, had resided in Blayney all her life, like most of the residents, she would find that the old abattoir never worried anybody.
The old Blayney abattoir was a great employer for 80 years or more, covering the Blayney, Orange, Millthorpe, Carcoar Bathurst and surrounding districts and shires. With any luck the new abattoir will do the same and maybe one day expand.
Our husbands and teenage children worked at both Blayney and Orange abattoirs for most of their lives. The abattoirs helped many of our local people buy and build houses, cars, properties and numerous other things.
The abattoir will not be the death of Blayney, as Karen Deters said.
It will help create employment for the town and other places. It will help give more life to Blayney.
All the people who are against the new abattoir opening should be grateful that someone wants to invest $38 million into a small country town and create jobs for all that want to work there.
Another opponent, Elizabeth Russ, is “frightened for the retirement village”. I suggest she asks the residents where they worked for a living before they retired. She might be astonished by the answers.
The new abattoir will more than likely bring more money into the town and maybe the small businesses - cafes, hot food shops, petrol stations - will prosper from it.
I would be more than devastated if the young members of the community missed out on vital employment opportunities.
Deirdrie Tudor,
Orange