Meat Freezing Works.

Patea Mail, 11 January 1882, Page 4

Meat Freezing Works.

The New Zealand Refrigeratim: Company have procure 21 acres of 1 ml, opposite the Kaikorai. The works will occupy a space of 100 feet by 176 feet, and will be of a substantial though by no means of an ostentatious character. There will be five refrigerating-rooms, each 30 feet by 16 feet S inches, the the walls of which will be of wood and double, the space between the walls being packed with dried tan, as a non-con-dnetor. The ceiling will also be double, covered with tan, and the rooms will be lined throughout with hessian and brown paper. Adjoining the freezing-rooms there is to be an outer or “ loading-room,” 83 feet by 20 feet. The slaughter-house will consist of a room 55 feet by 51 feet, with a roof 20 feet high in the 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 extend to the slaughterhouse and “ loading room.” The killing-pen will allow of four cattle, or 40 sheep, being slaughtered at one time ; and in the freezing rooms there will be hanging space for 40 carcases of cattle or 1000 sheep, and in the loading room 1000 sheep could be stored and kept perfectly good, in addition to those in the freezing rooms. It is estimated that the freezing capacity of the works will be sufficient to till up a space of 800 tons ship measurement within a fortnight, or to prepare for shipment 6000 sheep per week. For the machinery, the buildings are to be of brick, and will consist of a boilerhouse, a coal-house, and a room for the refrigerating-machine, 80 feet by 15 feet. In this room one of Haslam & Co.’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. Tenders for the buildings have been called, and the works are expected to be finished by March.