Meat industry and trade - New Zealand - Bay of Plenty Region
Photographs of Consolidated Traders' meat processing operations
Date: [ca 1970-ca 1979]
From: Giles, T Rex, 1929-2006 :Photographs of deer farming and hunting, opossum hunting, taxidermy, and mining.
Reference: PAColl-8752-2
Description: Photographs of deer carcasses being processed for export at Consolidated Traders Ltd's works at Rongatea and Rotorua. Also featured are carcasses of wild pigs awaiting processing and frozen goat carcasses bagged and ready for export. Several photographs show bales of deer pelts packed and covered with hessian. Deer photographed on Rex Giles' farm, Forest Park, at Maroa north of Taupo. Most of these photographs were in albums of plastic sleaves and were probably used as promotional material for the company. The prints were removed from the albums as the type of plastic bonds with the emusion of the print. Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s).
Mount Maunganui Chamber of Commerce :Here is the gateway to the wealth of the bay of Pl...
Date: 1951 - 1952
By: Bay of Plenty times (Newspaper)
Reference: Eph-B-LOCAL-Tauranga-1952-01
Description: A pamphlet addressed to manufacturers or prospective residents of Mount Maunganui showing the advantages, progress, prosperity of the area and the desirability of living or running a business there. A map shows the port and railhead, residential sites and light industrial sites. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Light card pamphlet, folded to 255 x 158 mm. Provenance: Donated by Bill Sheat, Lower Hutt, in 2015.