NEW FREEZING WORKS
OPENED IN POVERTY BAY. ". By Telegraph.—Press Association. Cisborno, February 8. The Poverty Bay Farmers' Freezing $orks were' opened at' Kaiteratalii, a thousand townspeople journeying to the function. Tho foundation ' stone was laid on August 26, and in claiming that the erection of tho works within'sis' months was a Dominion record, Miv! Lysnar, chairman of directors, - mentioned that the credit was due to the Itnperial authorities at Homo. One of -the_ first actions of the company was to inform the authorities of the establishment of the works, and their importance in relation to maintaining .food supplies, and the .authorities readily consented to place the material and plant- in the same category as war material. Thus the company obtained dispatch whilst plant for' other works started twelve months bofore had reached the docks at Home and had been commandeered. 'The works have ,a- present;: capacity of'lsoo sheep 'daily, and an ; ultimate full . capacity of-.-4000;
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2690, 9 February 1916, Page 8
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155NEW FREEZING WORKS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2690, 9 February 1916, Page 8
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