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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

The Wallacetown Freezing Works

The Wallacetown Freezing Works (Southland Frozen Meat and Produce Export. Company, Limited, proprietors), Wallacetown. These works were established about 1884, and the buildings, which are of wood, iron and brick, are fitted up with all modern appliances for slaughtering cattle, sheep and pigs, and the manufacture of manure. As many as 1,400 sheep have been killed in a day, and for the year ending the 31st of December, 1903, 140,000 sheep and lambs, and 1,000 head of cattle passed through the works. The tallow and manure departments produced for the same year 780 casks of tallow, and 700 tons of manure. There is also a department for the manufacture of sausage casings, and another for making casks; the sheep skins and hides are treated on owners' account at outside fell-mongeries. There are two twenty horse-power boilers, and a ten horsepower engine employed at the works, and forty men are engaged during the season.