BLACKBYRE BACON FACTORY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 21 February 1931, Page 6

BLACKBYRE BACON FACTORY

MR JAMES WYLLIE’S ENTERPRISE Extensive alterations and additions have been made to the Appleby cool store by Mr James Wyllie, proprietor of Kershaw’s Engineering Works, who is opening a bacon factory in the buildings next week. Large numbers of carpenters and engineers have been busy lately making the necessary preparations, and it is notified that operations will commence next week. Mr Wyllie has arranged for carrying out the work with a minimum of effort, and the various processes in the killing, curing and manufacture of by-products are arranged in convenient sequences. The existing producer gas plant and engine is being used for the main power with various additions for better working and for supplying much driving gear and power hoists, etc. In the flush of the season pigs will be slaughtered and placed in the freezer and drawn from for supplies. New ammonia piping has been installed throughout. The freezing chamber is fitted with both air circulation and direct expansion, thus reducing running expenses, an item which Mr Wyllie has kept a very keen eye on in planning the works. The offal cooking plant and manure manufacture machinery has also been installed. Mr Wyllie has secured a manager from Hastings who will bo in charge of the works.

In this enterprise Mr Wyllie, who is bearing the whole expense himself, trusts he will be serving the interests of the farmers and doing something useful for the district as a whole.