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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 889, 17 August 1956, Unnumbered Page

Price sixpence and no takers LF Pretty thin times ruled out herc in the 1870s. Farming W7s Well and On February 15, 1882, the Albion Line clipper Dunedin made New truly in the doldrums and many a farmer could have heen Tound Kealaud history. to scll 4 sheep for SIX pence Lo 4 man wcho s already trying to She sailed From Port Chalmers with 5,000 carcases of mutton as well seyingvt of his OWn for a shilling: There Was 10 market for New aS hares; rabbits; poultry and butter stored in a specially designed stock: freezing plant: She reached London in 98 days with the frozen cargo Zealand' $ enormous surplus in excellent condition: Twelve thousand miles away, in England, an exactly reverse situation Four months later, the New Zealand Shipping Company clipper cxisted. A fast-growing population had outstri) ipped the country' $ home Mataua followed with 3,844 careases of mUtton; 24 quarters of beef production resources and Wras crying out for Jood. and 77 pigs: She took 103 days on passage but again the cargo arrived And the shipping Jines which linked the two countries had a further in prime condition problem of their own: that of finding return freights for the ships And it mnust be remembered there were no Freezing Works in those which from 1872 onwards, were bringing more and mOre migrants to days where killing could take place. Slaughter had to be undertaken at New Zealand: the ship' S side and the carcases frozen down on board Not that there was any Jack of produce in New Zealand. But, though the technique WaS by modern standards primitive, the Fresh meat was here in abundance WaV Was open. In 1882 the ships carried 750 tons of frozen meat. Rivers of milk could have been made into butter and cheese. Within seven vears, the total hatd soared to 45. 000 tons: Today ic But England lay 100 days. aWaV-and what would become of the meat approaches the 400,000 ton mark: The enterprise of the shipping the butter; the cheese after 14 weeks in an unrefrigerated hold: It companies had given to New Zealand a new and prosperous industry was quite obvious to the shipowners that the anSWer lay in solving the And this enterprise is still working for thc pcople who livc and work of refrigeration: here Ptobicupcoi_eltig were many and varied but success came at Jast and Which, of couisc, includes you: Issued in the interests of mutual understanding by NEW ZEALAND OVERSEAS SHIPPING LINES ALBION CO. LTD: THE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CO_ LTD: PORT LINE LIMITED BLUE STAR LINE LIMITED BHAW SAVILL &