This photograph, taken before World War I by Stewart Macpherson on Totara Estate, near Oamaru, shows the complex where sheep and lambs were slaughtered for the first shipment of frozen meat to leave New Zealand from Port Chalmers in the sailing ship Dunedin in 1882. The building towards the rear with skylights is the killing shed. Beyond the killing shed is the store where the carcases were held. The lean-to in front of the killing shed and skin shed is the site of the pig pens. The offal from the killing shed was thrown to the pigs. In the foreground are the pig breeding pens. Between 1882 and 1890, 172,415 carcases were sent from Totara for 17 full and two part-shipments.
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Press, 28 November 1980, Page 14
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121This photograph, taken before World War I by Stewart Macpherson on Totara Estate, near Oamaru, shows the complex where sheep and lambs were slaughtered for the first shipment of frozen meat to leave New Zealand from Port Chalmers in the sailing ship Dunedin in 1882. The building towards the rear with skylights is the killing shed. Beyond the killing shed is the store where the carcases were held. The lean-to in front of the killing shed and skin shed is the site of the pig pens. The offal from the killing shed was thrown to the pigs. In the foreground are the pig breeding pens. Between 1882 and 1890, 172,415 carcases were sent from Totara for 17 full and two part-shipments. Press, 28 November 1980, Page 14
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