H.B. MEAT WORKS

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2400, 9 April 1931, Page 5

H.B. MEAT WORKS

BIK RECONSTRUCTION TASK MERGER DISCUSSED (Per Press Association). Hastings, Apri 8. Damage to meat freezing works in Hawke’s Bay by the earthquake was noi-mous. The plants and buildings at Tonioana, Paki Paid and Wliakatii all suffered extensively. Plans for reconstruction are being hastened but the restoration of j,be three works involves a huge expenditure. A proposal for the merger of Nelson Bros. (Australasia > Ltd. with Hawke’s Bay ; Farmers’ Freezing Co. Ltd. is to lie decided nl an early date. Meantime the fanners of the district are taking an active inlerestt in the proposal, to which some opposition lias bean expressed, while others consider that the scheme offers a means of saving many thousands of pounds. Meanwhile, Thus. Roi-thwiek and Sons (Australasia) Ltd. n:-<> making preparations for the reconstruction of the works at Paki Paki. The cost of the undertaking is said to tie likely to run into something over £150.001). involving engineering and building jobs of considerable inagniti% le.