The Wairara Frcezing Works.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 14, 15 June 1885, Page 3

The Wairara Freezing Works.

» — — (Hawera correspondent of Patea If ail.) The Waitara Meat Preserving Works - having begun operations on an extensive scale, the surplus fat stock will soon be reduced. Cattle and sheep of all classes must as a consequence riso m price and keep at a more fixed value on this |coast. Experts tell me that the export of live stock from Waitara to Auckland will not materially diminish. True the company have bought off the largest shipper, Mr Winks, by making him the buyer for the concern with the very nice screw of . £500 a year ; yet a number of others will now export their own stock direct from their farms without the medium of a middle party. Wellington, therefore, standing on one side as she is, but not going m heartily for the Patea works, is letting the West Coast trade slip through her fingers, to the benefit of the go-ahead people of Auckland. [Hawera Star.] We regret to hear that the freezing works at Waitara are not yet m full awing. After careful trial of the machinery had been mide it was found that the cold chamber, of which the walls had been stuffed with sawdust, did not exclude the outside warm air sufficiently well; consequently, the; sawdust will have to be replace with charcoal stuffing — a work which will "'take some little time. Several other minor alterations will be required before tao works will be m full Bwing. We are informed- 1 'that arrangements hare been concluded with the Northern S.S. Co. nnder which a chamber will be set apart' for carrying the company's chilled meat m, such joints only being sent up as are required by the company m Auckland, the balance being tinned down m the usual course. It is believed that . before long the meat now -being sent to Auckland alive will allbedispatched'chilled, m pieces of a size and shape which oan be conveniently handled; There are some who go so far as to state that m the course of a year or tyro they would not be surprised if the livestock trade by sea were absolutely prohibited by law, as the animals suffer such hardship and the meat is so much injured by the knocking about the animal gets when being shipped when at sea, when being unloaded, and .finally by being yarded for sale, and yarded at the slaughter yards m Auckland. Good judges admit that the beef m this district is equal to any m the world, and they affirm, with much truth, that it is a sin to knock the animal about and injure good meat until it is second class, if such injury to the food and hardship to the animals can be avoided by a regular dead meat trade.