FROZEN MEAT INDUSTRY
AN IMPORTANT JUBILEE FIFTY YEARS’ PROGRESS (Peg United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, February 13. Monday marks an important anniversary in the history of the Dominion—the jubilee of the great frozen meat industry. Fifty years ago, on February 15, 1882, the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company’s 1250-ton sailing ship Dunedin sailed from Port Chalmers for London with the first cargo of frozen meat from New Zealand. The Dunedin arrived in London on May 24 after a successful passage of 98 days, delivering her cargo in perfect condition. The success of the venture laid the foundation of the frozen meat industry, which rapidly expanded to an annual export of 2,000,000 carcasses 10 years later. To-day the four shipping companies engaged in New Zealand employ 78 large ships with a total refrigerated capacity of over 9.000,000 freight carcasses. The foodstuffs exported from the Dominion under refrigeration during 1931 were valued at nearly £25,000,000 out of a total export trade of just over £35,000,000. Last year more than TOO shipments of frozen meat and dairy produce were carried from New Zealand to Great Britain.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21569, 15 February 1932, Page 8
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182FROZEN MEAT INDUSTRY Otago Daily Times, Issue 21569, 15 February 1932, Page 8
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