A familiar name

Press, 3 April 1987, Page 20

A familiar name

'This year’s president of the Oxford A. and P. Association has a familiar name — to many, it simply means butcher. Mr Gavin Frahm joined his father, Neil, in partnership in the Oxford Butchery in 1968, a business his father had bought in 1956. The name has since become synonymous with the butchery trade. Many early customers will remember the old shop on the south side of Main Street, which is now a craft shop and home. A new shop was built opposite the old one in 1973 and has become a familiar landmark to people from not only within the district, but also from much further afield.

Mr Gavin Frahm’s part in the business is mainly associated with buying stock and the slaughtering of it. He farms 245 ha at Coopers' Creek, west of Oxford which runs 1800 ewes. The farm is also used for stock for the butchery. Mr Frahm is the fourth generation to farm in the Coopers Creek area. His great-great-grandfather farmed an acerage of land cut out of the bush at Sladdens Bush Road.

At present, extensive alterations have been carried out at the slaughter house and an abbatoir licence has been applied for, of which Mr Frahm hopes to hear soon. At present, the slaughter house has a customkill licence which allows the killing and processing of people’s stock for them.

Mr Frahm said the success of the butchery had been the “team work and companionship. ”

Mr Frahm has been a member of the A. and P. Association for 15 years. His interest in it followed on from his days in Young Farmers when he was involved in stock judging, which he did at a national level.

He has been a regular competitor in the primestock section of the show for many years.

Mr Frahm has been actively involved in both

cricket and rugby for Oxford. He is a member of the Waimakariri Golf Club committee, is a trustee of the Coopers Creek Hall, and has been secre-tary-treasurer of the social ■ committee for many years. His wife, Jane, is wellknown in Plunket circles, being a member for about 13 years and a past president of the local branch. She is actively involved in the garden club, is on the Waimakariri Golf Club committee, and is involved with Oxford Cottage Crafts, a co-operative which sells handcrafts by local people.