All welcome at Totara

Press, 12 February 1982, Page 8

All welcome at Totara

Everyone is welcome at the official ceremony at Totara, near Oamaru, next Monday for the centenary of New Zealand’s frozen meat trade. The chairman of the Centennial Committee, Mr M. R. Barnett (Dunsandel), has stressed that the facilities at Totara will cater for as many people as want to come and that the organisers would be particularly pleased to see any people connected with the meat industry. “It is not necessary to have received an invitation to be able to come,” he said. The ceremony begins at 11.30 a.m. on Monday and the speakers will include the Governor-General, Sir David Beattie, the Prime Minister (Mr Muldoon) and „the United Kingdom Minister* of State for Agriculture, and Food, Mr BuchananSmith. The ceremony will officially open the Totara Estate Centennial Park, on the site where the sheep for the first shipment of frozen meat for

the United Kingdom were slaughtered. On show at Totara will be the impressive restoration work on the original buildings, done under the guidance of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. The restored buildings will be open for public inspection and displays outlining the history of the industry and Totara Estate will be on show. There will also be displays of vintage cars and farm machinery and Godfrey Bowen’s performing sheep. “The Press” will be publishing a 14-page supplement on Monday, February 15, commemorating the frozen meat centenary and featuring articles by leading industry people.