WAINGAWA FREEZING WORKS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9135, 7 February 1910, Page 6

WAINGAWA FREEZING WORKS.

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The Tallin gton Farmers' Meat freezing Co. is 'reported to contemplate the establishment of a number of auxiliary works at Waingawa, if ■sufficient capital is forthcoming. Dairy farmers in the AVairarapa are reported by the Mastorton Times to have waited recently on Mr J. C. Cooper at Pahiatua with a request that a bacon-curing works be erected by the company. The proposition will, m all probability, be considered by the directors if sufficient capital is forthcoming from the dairy farmers, all of whom are more or less interested. The estimated cost of the plant would only bo about £3000, whereas if ' a firm built a bacon-curing works alone it would cost, roughly, some £7000, as they would have to instal a refrigerating ' plant and cooling chambers, of which the company will already be in possession. The directors are stated by our contemporary to have decided on a vigorous canvass . for more capita] with which to erect a canning plant in connection with the freezing works. The plans are already in hand, although they will not attempt to make a start till next spring, as the works can be constructed in about three months. Hence if a start were made in, say, October, they would probably Ibe ready as soon as required. Even if they are not, anything on hand can be easily held in the chambers until, they are. I

There is .some talk, too, of establishing a cooperage hi. connection with the works, and eventually perhaps a box factory .