COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XII, Issue 4, 20 April 1916, Page 332

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

MEAT-FREEZING WORKS. Since the publication of the list of New Zealand meat-freezing works in the last issue of the Journal the works of the Oroua and West Coast Meat-freezing Company (Limited), at Aorangi, near Feilding, have been completed and have commenced operations. These works have a killing-capacity of 100 cattle and 2,200 sheep per day, and cold-storage space equivalent to 70,000 carcases of mutton. The works of the Westfield Freezing Company (Limited), at Westfield, near Auckland, are expected to be completed and in operation about the middle of May. The slaughtering-capacity of the works will be 200 cattle and 3,000 sheep daily, with cold storage equal to 175,000 mutton carcases. • Including the two establishments just referred to, the total capacity of the meat-freezing works in New Zealand is shown to be as follows : Sheep-slaughter-ing, 109,650 head per day ; beef-slaughtering, 3,085 head per day ; cold storage, 3,516,450 60 lb. carcases of mutton. The {list of meat-freezing works (published in the February issue was inadvertently given as at March, 1915. This, of course, should have been 1916.