THE MEAT INDUSTRY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 19 December 1914, Page 4

THE MEAT INDUSTRY.

NEW WORKS PROJECTED

BY TBLKGKAfB—PRBSB ASSOCIATION

AUCKLAND, Dec. 18. Plans for. the establishment of two new freezing works in the Auckland district were announced yesterday afternoon. % The directors of the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Co. have decided to proceed with the erection of works at Horotiu, four miles south of ISgaruawahia, in the Waikato, and Messrs Vestey Bros., owners of many works in Australia, have undertaken the establishment of. works in the neighborhood of Auckland and the extension of the .Whangarei works. The two main projects involve an expenditure of £50,000 each, and the additions at Whangarei will cost £25,000 to complete, a total of £125,000. Each of these new works will have a capacity of 30,000 sheep per day, while Whangarei is being increased to that capacity, and the new plant which has just been installed at the Auckland Freezing Go.'s Westfield works, near the city, brings them also up to that capacity. The machinery for Vestey Bros.' works is now on the water, and an endeavor is being made to commence operations next July, but the Waikato works will not be open until next December.