FREEZING INDUSTRY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 673, 30 May 1914, Page 6

FREEZING INDUSTRY.

COMPANY EXTENDS PLANT. EXPENDITURE OF £30,000. Extensive additions are being made by the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company at its works at Southdown and its buildings in Auckland. The expenditure upon new buildings and equipment will amount to £30.000, and this in addition to the expsnditure of £15.000 last season. The erection of new buildings at Southdown is now in progress, and the extensions will be ready or use by November Ist. The necessary plant has been ordered, and some of it has already arrived. The accommodation of the slaughterhouse is being increased by one-third, the capacity of the mutton slaughterhouse being increased from 2000 to 3000 shaep or lambs per day, and that of the beef slaughterhouse from 120 to 150 head per day. Including these additions, the extensions made during three years increase the slaughtering capacity by 100 per cent. Proportionate extensions are, being made in the mutton cooling chamber and the beef chilling room, and the addition of a new storage room will increase the total capacity to 50,000 carcases, Additions are also being made to the freezing plant. In order to deal with the increased volume by by-products, the company is also enlarging the manure store, fellmongery and hides sheds. The wells from which the water supply for the works is drawn are being extended, and a complete fire-fighting equipment is being installed. A fourth storey is to be added to the company's building on the King's Wharf, Auck'and. At present the freezing and chilling chambers are situated on one fluor and the extension is being made not only to provide greater acoemmodation but also to avoid tha difficulty of maintaining the different temperatures proper to ,the two processes. The new floor will be devcted to chilling rooms for cheese, eggs, and fruit, and the present chilIng chamber will ba converted into freezing space for dairy produce, fish, and a certain amount <>f meat for local requirements.