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THE FIRST FROZEN MEAT COMPANY mfSi IN NEW 7FAI AND W SL/ drriiftrair nf JJttrurpnraiiiin —Of 'rfq&ty&aZJg " 1 " the JOINT STOCK COMPANIES ACT,' 1860Registrar of Joint Stock Companies u I I I IB _jb I_ B g II II IVi BB■ fl | ]B ■/11111 II II 1 Company is Incorporate under “The Joint Stock Companies Act, H8I60” 1 1-V z '"1 ▼ ▼ Vw lW H W ■ and that it is a Limited Company. ■ GIVEN under my hand at ’this I/f A’ /I (\ I II / ■ I dayOf one thousand eight hundred and iwn orduno ulltoj \ ' \J \J J -J "J __. I Ej (Z) Certificate of Incorporation Dated August 19th, §BBl ' Nominal Capital in 1881, £20,000 In 1956 £2,000,000 JE t THE FIRST SHIPMENT OF FROZEN MEAT. TO LEAVE NEW ZEALAhO Away back 75 years ago, New Zealand knew the real meaning of an unbalanced economy. New Zealand was over-producing U Hr- '''Y' Ik \ Here is the first vessel to leave New meat —and’there was no market, no outlet for it. The local market was glutted. In 1851, New Zealand had but 233,000 sheep The' 3 " Dunedin 3 '' C |ef®° Port by 1880 the flocks totalled more than 11,000,000. Little wonder that sheep were boiled down for tallow. February 15th, 1882, and took 98 days ora } ‘ 'r. th® v °y a 9 e to London where the cargo* But, in every crisis there are men who will meet it. With refrigerating ships still very much in the experimental stage, a group "as wu'ld^be". expertt of men in Dunedin pooled their money and knowledge to found The New Zealand Refrigerating Company Ltd., ; the certificate of incorporation being dated August 19, 1881. The Company offered facilities to sheepowners to have stock killed An Historic Ship . . The s.v. " Dunedin " ve 7he 6 5 freezing and the meat delivered frozen to the refrigerated ships. The works at Burnside were erected in 1881—the first in the Dominion. plant broke down after some 1500 carcases were stored. These had to be sold in Thus the Comoanv may fairly claim to have pioneered the industry in New Zealand. Dunedin. Thus, Dunedin residents were the first consumers of N.Z. frozen meat. •* lius, me cumpauv J J r The ca pf a , n o f the Dunedin (Captain Whitson) reported that on several occas- . . • • , 1 ions the smoke stack of the refrigerating plant set fire to his sails. But, despite all The way was not easy. Technical difficulties were many; but they were overcome, lhen, as time went on, there were inevitable this—New Zealand meat was delivered to the tables of Old set-backs due to economic conditions. Here again, the will to win through asserted itself. Today, the New Zealand Refrigerating England! The market was established! r ——— -1 • Comnanv ltd has an organisation which includes five modern and well equipped freezing works with a daily In the work of preparing the cargo for export and forsuper- /J*** company llci., uaa an vi & am £ i jr» c • 4.- t <.j vising the storage, credit must be given to the late Thomas fT r * killing capacity of 32,000 lambs and 400 cattle. From a small beginning in 1881, the New Zealand Refrigerating Company Ltd Brydone, later vice-chairman of The New Zealand Refriger- i has truly fulfilled the ambitions of the men who founded it. ating Company Ltd. Mr Brydone's work in this direction has i « J deservedly been recorded in history. MEN WHOSE VISION STARTED A GREAT INDUSTRY IN NEW ZEALAND rr r, 1 The original Directors of The New Zealand Refrigerating Company Ltd., were Messrs W. J. M. U LA UL VJUf reel • • 1 Larnach (chairman), A. C. Begg, E. B. Cargill, James Shand, John Roberts (later Sir John Roberts, C.M.G.), US AVClll OurSCIVCS Of UUK m ±= THE NEW ZEALAND REFRIGERATING COMPANY LIMITED (INC. 1881) 159 HEREFORD STREET, CHRISTCHURCH Works at— BURNSIDE 1881 ★ SMITHFIELD 1883 ± ISLINGTON 1889 -fr PICTQN 1896 ± IMLAY 1916