MUTE WITNESS OF OTHER TIMES.
NOW DISMANTLED. . The. boiling-down works at Waingawa, which wore erected some twenty years ago by Messrs.- Williams and beetham, and wero iilterwards sold to tho Wellington Meat Export Company, have been dismantled (says our Slasterton correspondent). .It is. understood that the site is to be utilised for another purpose. Some rather unpleasant memories are attached to tho building in question. At the time of its erection the frozen meat industry was in its infancy, and sheep were a drug in the market. Thousands of carcasses were boiled do-wn, for the sake of procuring the tallow and skin.-,. Legs of mutton were being delivered at the door, in those days, at sixpence a. piece, and tho market price (if sheep was as low as 2s. Sd. per head. Those were strenuous times for settlers, and not a few havt iiuplciisniit recullections of the struggle to make both pnds meet. The rcirigerator is one of the best friends the wnntry settlers of this Dominion have hud.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 885, 3 August 1910, Page 4
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169MUTE WITNESS OF OTHER TIMES. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 885, 3 August 1910, Page 4
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