City Cash Butchery

About 1911 Slack took over Johnson's grocery store and established a large butchery with living quarters above. This was known as the City Cash Butchery.

Thomas Finn commenced trading as the City Cash Butchery in Lower Brisbane Street on 11 August 1919. These premises had recently been those of the Ipswich Cooperative Society. It is unclear if this store belongs to the Slack business although Finn may have been Slack's employee. 

James John Slack as the proprietor of City Cash Butchery opens a new shop at the corner of Brisbane and Burnett Streets on 11 January 1922. 

By 1930 the business appears to be trading from 4 or 5 locations in Brisbane Street, East, West, Central, and North Ipswich. 

In December 1931 a new store in Brisbane Street was opened by City Cash Butchery in premises recently occupied by The Sausage King. 

In 1949, after 38 years in retail butchering,  J.J. Slack retired triggering an auction of equipment on 12 December 1949. The butcher shop was was sold to D. R. Robson for a wholesale fruit business. It is not known what happened to Slack's branch shop in the city. It may have been taken over by one of Slack's staff. The name City Cash Butchery was still in use in November 1954. 

J. J. Slack also conducted his own slaughter yards at Churchill. 

Butchering and slaughter yards was a family business.