THE NEW ZEALAND REFRIGERATING COMPANY’S PROJECTED WORKS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2414, 30 December 1881, Page 3

THE NEW ZEALAND REFRIGERATING COMPANY’S PROJECTED WORKS.

[_“ Otsgo Daily Times. ”]

The New Zealand Refrigerating Company having procured a suitable site, consisting of twenty-one acres of land, opposite the cattle yards at the Kaikorai, and all other necessary arrangemente having been made, plans have been prepared by Messrs Mason and Wales, architects, for buildings and yards in which to carry on the operations of the company. The works will occupy a space of 100 ft by 17Gft, and will be of a substantial though by no means of an ostentatious character. There will be ample provision for carrying on a more extensive business than is likely to engage the attention of the company at first, but no unnecessary expense will bo incurred, and nothing done for the sake of show, the plans being severely plain. According to the plans, there will bo five refrigerating rooms, each 30ft by 16ft Sin, the walls of which will be of wood, and double, the space between the walls being packed with dried tan, as a non-conductor. The ceilings will also bo double, covered with tan, and the rooms will be lined throughout with hessian and brown paper. Adjoining tho freezing rooms there is to be an outer compartment or “loading room," into which the siding from the main line of railway is to bo brought. This room, which will be 83ft by 20ft, will also have non-conducting walls, and its proximity to the freezing chambers will keep it at a sufficiently low temperature for the purpose it is intended to serve. Tho slaughterhouse will be at the end of the loading chamber, and will consist of a room 55ft by 51ft, with 'a roof 20ft high in highest part. The roof will extend over the side wings, which will be fitted with louvre boarding, to secure free ventilation. The railway siding will also extend to the slaughter-house, which is to ho fitted with the most modern appliances for saving time and preventing the frequent handling of the meat. Adjoining the slaughter-house is the “ drop 11 or killing pen, on either side of it the rooms for offal, and adjacent a hide pit. Tho killing pen will allow of tour cattle, or forty sheep, being slaughtered at one time ; and in tho freezing rooms there will be hanging space for four carcases of cattle or 1000 sheep, and in the loading room 1000 sheep could bo stored and kept perfectly good, in addition to those in the freezing rooms. It is estimated that, should the machinery prove as effective as it is r.-p rted it will, the freezing capacity of tho works will be sufficient to fill up a space of SOO tons ship measurement within a fortnight, or to prepare for shipment 6000 ehoop per week. For the machinery the buildings are to bo of brick, and will consist of a boiler-house, a coal-house, and a room for the refrigerating machine thirty feet by fifteen feet. In this room one of Haslam and Oo.’s large refrigerators, a machine calculated to deliver 60,000 cubic feet of cold air per hour, will be erected, and the other room will contain three large boilers. The cattle and sheep pens will be conveniently situated, and tho works, it may bo presumed, will bo in all respects complete, for great diligence has been used in collecting available information, which has doubtless been taken full advantage of. Tenders for the buildings have been called for, and it is expected that tho company’e works will bo completed about tho end of 1 March, 1882.