FREEZING WORKS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16737, 18 December 1914, Page 8

FREEZING WORKS.

NEW ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE NORTH. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, December 17.

Plans for the establishment of two new freezing works in Auckland district were announced yesterday afternoon.

The directors of the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company have decided to proceed with the erection of works at Horotiu, four miles south of Ngaruawahia, in the Waikato, and' Messrs Vestry Bros., owners of many works in Australia, have undertaken the establishment of works in the neighbourhood of Auckland and the extension of the Wliangarei works. The two main projects involve an expenditure of £50,000 each, and tlio additions at Wliangarei will cost £25.000 complete, making a total of £125,000. Each of these new works will have a capacity of 3000 sheep per day, while Wliangarei is being increased to that capacity, and the new plant which has just been installed at the Auckland Freezing Company’s Westfield works, near the city, brings them also up to that capacity. The machinery for Vestry Bros.’ works is now on tne water, and an endeavour is being mad'e to commence operations next July 1, but the Waikato works will not bo open until next December.