On the 1st January 1850, the bench granted slaughtering licenses to the following persons for the year 1850:
Mr. William Eckford, slaughter-house situated at the back of the East Maitland and Morpeth road
Mr. John Finch, Horse-shoe Bend, West Maitland
Mr. John Smith, Lochinvar
Mr. Richard Ingall, near Morpeth
Mr. James Kelly, near Morpeth
Mr. John Chapman, near Morpeth
Mr. Isaac Gorrick, Rutherford
Mr. John Keys, Lochinvar
Mr. Charles Prentice, Oakhampton
The application of Mr. John Nation, Lochinvar, was postponed.
The application of Mr. William Nicholson, High-street, West Maitland, and of Mr. Samuel Clift, West Maitland (near Wallis's Creek Bridge), for renewals of their present licenses, were refused, both slaughter-houses being situated within a quarter of a mile of the high streets running through the towns, each to have a license granted on removing their slaughter-houses, and to be allowed an interval of time to do so. In refusing these licenses, the bench explained that their only object in framing the regulation was, bearing in mind the terrible disease now prevailing so generally in the United Kingdom, and the epidemics frequently experienced in the colony latterly, to guard against the risk of adding fresh danger to the health of the inhabitants by the existence of slaughter-houses in the crowded parts of the town.
View Original: Slaughtering Licenses. (1850, January 2). The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843 - 1893), p. 2.
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