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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27987, 6 June 1956, Page 9

Price sixpence . . and< no takers. & Pretty thin times ruled out here in the 1870 s. Farming was well and truly J'' / 'i' Ji Ji in the doldrums and many a farmer could have been found trying to sell US 'rf ; a sheep for sixpence—to a man who was already trying to sell two of his J—own for a shilling. There was no market for New Zealand's enormous I UN/a • surplus stock. I.[kF j&Sk x Twelve thousand miles away, in England, an exactly res erse situation 1 K'>*** existed. '[■<.' W A fast-growing population had outstripped the country’s home produc- J tion resourc es and was crying out for food. 'J ; fr And the shipping lines which linked the two countries had a further WBPT'j' J®. J| / / problem of their own: that of finding return heights for the ships which tytWr/' z » I ' lllhyi / from 1872 onwards, were bringing more and more migrants to New sfe/ftMt I* . J I 2 / Zealand. Y J y| L *7tytL / Not that there was any lack of produce in New Zealand. Wfli ®gTA uUr 1 jF Jf> Fresh meat was here in abundance. sU- & • ' . JF Risers of milk could have been made into butter and cheese. ■ J '"'l jf f / But England lav 100 days away—and what would become of the meat, the j ft V * butter, the cheese, after 14 weeks in an unrefrigerated hold? It was quite ■'A <wA / / '%»- obvious to the shipowners that the answer lay in solving the problem of ;^-tt?■ ,jB I pIK b £ *a < •'->A JZJSwSfe* "'Jf' -"■' refrigeration. fIMEr f JaTiiEr . ~ I vX UHr ex per i merits and •. aried bur it last and on JHgN y. -N *’ Z* ' February 15, 1882, the Albion I.inc clipper 'Dunedin" made New '■ ‘'' "* ' Z Zealand history. Hu ’ r~ '''-Jfc. She sailed front Port Chalmers with 5,000 carcases of mutton as well as 1 hares, rabbits, poultry and butter stored in a specially designed freezing * jKMh' fi IflKr* 1 * plant. She reached London in 98 days with the frozen cargo in excellent ** * W IScJfe condition. k - ?/' '% K. Four months later, the New Zealand Shipping Company c lipper. HL> 'L “.Mataura " followed with 3.811 carcases of mutton. 21 quarters of beef z* and 77 pigs. She took 103 days on passage but again the cargo arrived in j f IX/ prime condition. «fiEA’|yE|^•?■ . «Mt And it must lie remembered there were no Freezing Works in those davs * >f where killing could take' place. Slaughter had to be undertaken at the sImMBBL** -j ship's side and the carcases frozen down on board. Mk''"' But. though the technicpie was by modem standards primitive, the way | '' was open. In 1882 the ships carried 750 tons of frozen meat. Within ■' / seven years, the total had soared to 45.000 tons. 'I oday it approaches the ’ffijßwgHL a/x ~ >x, 400.000 ton mark. The enterprise of the shipping companies had given - - **"' 1 ' ‘ to New Zealand a new and prosperous industry. And this enterprise is ' still working for the people who live and work here. f Which, of course, includes/you. ' Issued in the interests of mutual understanding by NEW ZEALAND OVERSEAS SHIPPING LINES SHAW SAVILL & ALBION CO. LTD. • THE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CO. LTD. • RORT LINE LIMITED • BLUE STAR LINE LIMITED