Paki Paki Freezing Works

Hastings Standard, Volume IX, Issue 5095, 12 January 1906, Page 2

Paki Paki Freezing Works

A representative of this journak yesterday paid ;i visit tv thenewlv-\ erected l'aki l'aki Worl»>,J tin; property of find I'd. Tin: writer went by tin; Maraekakiiho ;-.■-,» ;l ! U r. n , H ,|' ]mving been made t'i'fim tin* l'aki l'aki road to the work;-. This makes the distance from Hastings about six miles. Tlir lu'ad of tin- slaughtering department, had the tiresome task of showing one man around, and explained I lie several ili vision.., in the works, t'rom the outside he was shown the Ion:; 1 narrow raiied-in pathway b-ading upstairs to the killing ro-.m, t! p which tbe sheep and c;UtN> ;) r< driven to their fate. On the sh<epkilling board there are seven pens on each side, of a, centre rai . . where the mob is kept ready to fill the puns. Fourteen butchers ran therefore be. kept going. The. Tv Me are driven up a similar alley way, which is only wide enough for one beast at a time. Six sliding doors prevent the cattle from backing. The beasts when they reach the killing floor are imprisoned in a sliding door box, where they teeeive their death blow. They are then rolled out and bled. The. works will later get an electric motor installed to haul the cattle, ou to the railing to get dressed. Each butcher in the sheep division has a rail to himself on which to hang what he has killed, so as to keep separate tallies, and each rail is counted before the carcases are switched on to the machine rail into the freezing chambers. The skins of the dead sheep are transmitted to the fellmongery below, where they are, J cured, rolled, and barrelled, and the wool is washed, dried, and baled. The olfal goes through shoots on to the offal table below, and after the fat and such like are separated the surplus is put into a drain running beside the table' (into which water is continually Mowing) and runs through pipes into a fink outside, from where it is taken by means of a strong pump and piping and deposited in the paddocks. The- t'af is collected by ( rollies. weighed, and then put into vats. The blood from the sheep and rattlt* i.- carried by a drain into a tank and made into manure. Six hot and cold water taps are laid on to tlie killing iloors. The sheep, after being .switched from each pen (jn to ill'' main rail, are deprived of their kidney fat during transit, ami .ire weighed bv a clerk who lias an ollice opposite the weighing machine.- They are then removed to the cooling room and placed on such rails according to the ;:rades classified b\ the weighing clerk. It may lie mentioned that the rdierp are not unhooked from the time they are placed t) it the rails by the butcher till after they are The bet I. alter being dressed, is brought mio a chilling room, around which cold water pipes are laid. The following morning the ean-ases are cut into quarters, weighed, and then sent lo the freezing chambers. There aie five beet freezing rooms and three mutton freezing rooms. * These latter, however, are double the length, measuring about lld leet each. In each room there ir- n hap door at either end, to ht the. fiw,"ii mutton and beef into the store room below, which measures over ldtl bv 'M Ceel. Trap doors open on I in I'ronf, and the carcases are put through these into the railway trucks, which come up close, to the building. The engine room i* 'alongside the ,-dore room, and at present contains a I'Yick engine ( ,£ Sl'-lon reirigerafing capacity, ujrh vertical ammonia compressors ami horizontal engine.-. Kach freezing room in (he works is worked by direct expansion. The combo-.' is made b\ Miri liess. \Vat,-on and Co,, of Ciasgow, and (he air puiop by Kdwai'ds. The when -vine' drives the ammonia to tltc ft.r/i. ■; chambers weighs no less than !'■• r .(f tons. There are Iwo ■'. in the adjoining u^^^^Kirh leads J^^^^^Rmney 100 fecj^^^^y ■

later on will of asphalt. A take uyS" **'* front of ili«; \_.ovkl« wai'U' j of tin; work*. This luko will be by ariivian wells. A building has Ivqen Imili from th'.' nm'm structure l ml |>ost{ l# of to the imnci'S, which are pai'k'd away iuwrrels to Inused in (lillWent ways, (•ai'liculurly lor !)>,ik"ui:.; \iolm siring-'. A rciw r>i" ten houses HP' in nriii «" of con-.ii-iu-finH, and ili-i-.o will he takeiij up Ivy the lrv.'U :-tm>lovr',i, ;uul flu.' hoarding lioitv.' vn th>> groimld will h;iY<- sleeping ;*<■■ mouaiu'ii for : :»!iu-ti. ""V« Although work bus not n j t -otn- « m':nc4>'U a walk through ■ dr(V"ri'iu p>oihs it* very intt;n • ■ 'icj. and will • fe-:k 11<- i'up;»y a visit. '!'!i'j- carpenters and in ii-khn t'<r< will Hi- iinisln'd in acmtipio of \\i t ks, ■svlu-iii kitltuvi will 1«'- at once coiiv nt!'.tn_:k''t, K'Mi'trU- }>(,'bt lias Ix.'en installed iliroii|!,>|ioirl the building, the flwil.cli hoard- I»esng worked hi the engine rC.OI.ii, , '('!.*• hvad of the slaughtering r: ,,|| -i- who h,:ts worked in almost i v\f\ trc"/io:,' works in tl>" co/hdv, fold <jifci r''j.|o:,»'iLlati.vr i b.ti this was. ••\ Iri l '"■ too,!- up toddle Urn-Min;; io S>>\ X; ai.jii't. if not in Aitsci'ittasi:.'..