NELSON FREEZING WORKS.

CAPACITY ENLARGED,

(From "The Colonist," Jan. 12.)

Good progress is being made with the enln.icemanb of the Nelson freezing works at Stoke, and it is hoped that everything will be in readiness to comnionc.« killing next week. When completed the works will have a killing capacity of from 750 to 800 sheep per day, and' in the killing-room space will be'provided for ten butchers, as against six /it -nvcsßjjt. Additional cold storage is also being provided, making ac-, Icommodaticm for 30.000 carenses. or double what it wlas before. A special cold store- for fruit with a .capacity of 7000 oases is also being provided, m addition <>o a convertible store for sheep or fruit, "-irh a cmjacitv of 15,000 en rcasos The cooling-rooms have been doubled in size, and fare practically completed, and there are now six freea,ing cliamb/rs instead of-three. Ine v^rlc is Hpitvc: carried out by Mr A,Miller, of Nelson. ...