A Canterbury woman, Miss Roberta Cromie, has been appointed to manage Summit Deer Products, Ltd, deer slaughter plant near Tauranga. She is the first woman to hold the top job in a meat-processing plant in New Zealand. Miss Cromie, aged 30, has been office adminstrator at Fortex’s Canterbury Venison, Ltd, plant at Seafield, near Ashburton, since it was opened in November 1982. Her appointment follows an agreement between the Fortex Group and Summit under which Fortex will procure and market venison slaughtered at the plant She sees her new job as a ‘tremendous challenge.”
“It will be quite a change for me. I do a lot of the organisation here, but up there, if anything difficult crops up, I won’t have anybody to pass it on to.”
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