THE FROZEN MEAT INDUSTRY AT AUCKLAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2005, 14 May 1885, Page 3

THE FROZEN MEA T INDUSTRY A T AUCKLAND.

As already announced, the New Zeil.uid Frozen Meat Company has at length commenced active opciations, and soon a cargo of meat will Ik- dispatched to England. From yesterday* Herald we extract the following paiticulars of the woiks :-The aieaof land reclaimed, or to be reclaimed by the company as the site *of its operations, is about six acres The free/ing works luxe a frontage to the Railway Wharf of 96 feet by a depth of 120 feet, and ore foiu stoteys it) height, including basement. The con tract for their election x\as signed by Messrs Flulcox and Son on the 4th May. 1884, and the buildup aie to be com i plete in eveiy detail in all July; the price was £17,642. On the giound flooi are situated the boiler house, engine home, fice/ing loom, cold meat and fish store, cooper's shop, four shops for \ auous pui po-.efr, ami main entiance to company's otfi. es, &c , facing the whaif. The railxvay also runs through the <vntte< ot the xvorks, having a platform on each side, xv lnch gives every facility for landing and unloading fro/on meat and produce The main entrance is an ornamental featuic of the woiks, being eighten feet in width, with tasselated tile pavement, and massive xv ought iron entrance gates of chaste desu-n. The main stain ase is six feet xvitle, with orn.i mental cast iron balusters, and massive cedai handiail. On the first floor are the frozen meat stores, with sufficient storage capacity foi 13,000 sheep, and cheese and buttei store with cubical capacity of 1200 feet. Also extensive btoies, one 72 x 27 and anothei (>4 v 50. On this floor are also situate the boird loom, chief clerk and clerks' otlice, strong loom, telephone, lavatory, etc , the whole of which will be finished in nice detail. The second floor is devoted cntiitly to stoi.ige room, having a clear floor arei of 10 000 feet These floors are reached by a line stincase. six feet wide, in addition to an hydianlic lift There is a dcliv ci y door on each floor for taking out good' into railway trucks The total thickness of walls to fiee/mg room is 3ft 3in , being paitly of brick and partly of wood, the whole of the wood being insulated between studs with chaicoal, of w hich no Ws than 200 tons has been used. The whole of the stores aic thotoughly * outdated, hay ing hopper veil tilators in the ioof,,nid louvied ventilators in the walls The facade is of a paiticularly pleasing design, and it is almost a pity that the ongmal deign fuinished by the arohit.ct for a building four Btoreys in height xvas not carried out, as the proposed I uilding was well adapted for commercial purposes, and a credit to the city. The first storey is all carried up in a n.assive Milestone piers, while from the hist floor upwauls it is carried out in red-pirsMjd buck and Oamarn stone friezing-. The maiu entrance 18 of Melbourne '(tone. Two hundred sheep were killed on Monday, at the company's abbattoirs, St. Ann's Bridge, Otahuhii, and brought in by railway and put in the freezing chamber, at ten o'clock josterday moining, being the first of the cargo of fiozen meat in com be of preparation for the direct steamer Aorangi. Tne tempera ture obtained in the frpe/.ing chamber xvas lower than was anticipated, and thoroughly satisfactosy to the company. Some 300 carcases will be frozen per day, besides beef and fish. The freezing chambers are three in number, and with the thiec stoic rooms are fitttd up with all the latest improvements. ' Owing to the labour-saving appliances piovided less manual labour will be rerjuiied, consr quently less expense on that head than at any other works of the same ehaiacter. The cai cases having been frozen for fort} eight hours, they are then bagged and ticketed, and stored in the upper ehambeis. There they remain till londy foi shipment The fiecing machinery is supplied by Baslamand Co, of Dei by, and is the largest yet turned out by that funi Being compound suifaee condensing, a great saving of fuel is expected. The engines indicite about 130 horsepower, and are on the dry air principle, having an air coolnii surface of about 18,000 square feet The an is tit^t drawn from the chambers and compiessed to 2")lbs. totlicsijiinrenich ; then discharged into the suiface cooling chambers and acain expanded to the atmospheiic pressure at a tempeiature of 7.") degrees below nro. 'Die tem|eratuie of air on leavina the machine h 70 degrees below zero. The engine loom is so capacious that it will afford room foi double the plant. In the machine loom the bids are already laid down ami fixed lor a duplicate machine whenever the operations of the company inquire its erection. Steam is supplied by one Lancashiie boiler and one niultitubular boiler, the latter being lupplied by Meisrs Frnser and Tinne, of the I'luLMiix Foundry, of this city. The engineer in chaigcof the Freezing Woiks is Mr Niven, xvho has had considerable experience in this special line of business, having started the various works in the colony. The assistant engineers are Mr VV Stodart and Mr Hanna. Mi Joseph Banks is the miiiasinsj dnector oi the company, and Mr (Jeoffrcy McLean outside manager

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