NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 233, 24 June 1915, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

♦ ANOTHER FREEZING WORKS. AT WANGANUI. WANGANUI, This Day. The Christchurch Meat Company has purchased a site of 24 acres, fronting the river, between the town and en trance to the port, on which it is pro posed to erect up-to-date freezing works of brick, w'ith storage capacity equal to 200,000 carcases. This site is eminently suitable foi works, it being connected by rail wdtl the wharves at Castlecliff, whtere s turning basin for ocean liners is b€ ling constructed. It is expecf/ed th work will be in operation in, Angus 1516. | £21,574 FOR A FLA.G. t - MASTERTON,. Jun e 23. At a patriotic boxing carnival t night, the sum cf £2l/ ,741 was su scribed for a patriotic 1 by Mr A. P. Whatman towards tl Wounded Soldiers' Fun' a. This is ea ily a record for the I lominion. Bi< included 30W> guinea l s by Mr A. Whatman, £Too€* ex -.ch by Mr Gx Williams, Mrs Peter McLaren and t-1 Wellington Farmeir / Meat Compan There were ixurner ou3 bids of £SC The sum of aboisif £40,000 has be« subscribed ,in Wairarapa durii the past week: t< 3r the Wounded Si d-iers” Fund aisd the canvass is hen vigorously pro? ecuted.