Freezing works - New Zealand - Southland Region

Date: 1950-1969

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-MEAT-1950/1969

Description: Includes: 1953: Statement by freezing companies and exporters in support of the freedom of the meat export trade [1953] 1954: New Zealand Master Butchers Federation. 21st annual conference at Wellington. 27 February - 4 March 1954. Programme 1956: Gear Meat Co. Ltd Wellington NZ. 75th anniversiary. Issued to mark the occasion of the visit of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh to the gear Meat Company Limited's Freezing Works at Petone, 12 December 1956. New Zealand meat grade book. 1956 1957: New Zealand meat grade book. 1957 1960: Woman and Home. Roaster-wheel [Circular time calculator. ca 1960] 1961: Auckland Retail Meat Industry. A career with prospects in the retail meat industry. Commonwealth Technical Training Week, Epsom Showgrounds, 29 May - 2 June [1961] 1960s: Alliance Freezing Co. (Southland) Ltd. Lorneville Works. [1960s] Kiwi Bacon Company Ltd. Free recipes! Exciting new versions of traditional Christmas recipes featuring Kiwi Ham and Colmans Mustard [1960s] (2 copies) 1964: Vogtherr's Hastings Bacon Co. Ltd. Fifty years continuous trading 1914-1964. An appreciation of kindly co-operation over a long period of trading in Hawke's Bay. Greeting card showing reproduction of Geoffrey Fuller illustration "Banded dotterel; tuturiwhatu" [1964] 1969: Waikanae Beach Butchery Ltd. Price list [ca 1969?] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on pamphlets, brochures, fliers, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1895 - 1900

By: Drummond, Martin & Matheson (Firm); Clayton, Charles A, active 1895-1906; Rodger, Robert, -1952; McKee & Company

Reference: Eph-B-TOURISM-Gore-1899-01

Description: Includes photographs of a general view of Gore looking east (panorama in 2 parts); traffic and railway bridges looking from the East Gore Esplanade; Main Street looking north; Fleming & Gilkinson's Flour mills and Tothill Watson & Co's Grain stores, Gorton Street; Mersey Street; Southland Frozen Meat Co works, Mataura; Churches; view of the Hokonui Hills from the Gore cemetery; Suspension bridge at Mataura; Graham Bros mining dredge on the Mataura River; Railway garden and main street after a snowstorm. The last leaf advertises W McGruar & Co (draper) and Vitadatio the great herbal remedy, manufactured in Wellington but obtainable from J Duncan & Co Gore. Dated from a reference to the valuation of the town in 1899. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 13 leaves, each 205 x 255 mm.

Date: 1926

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Gilkison, J, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1199-F

Description: Panoramic view of the Makarewa Freezing Works buildings. On the main building in the centre the signage reads "Wallacetown Freezing Works". There are two pens full of sheep in front with a man standing to the right. Brick house behind a fence on the far right with a paddock behind in the distance behind. Large building on the left "Oil and manures". Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - "Makarewa Freezing Works 1926". 3 B&W. Print on 8" paper. J. Gilkison, Tay St. Invercargill Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 130.2 cm

Date: 8 Apr 1995 - 08 Apr 1995

From: Auckland Employers Association oral history project

By: Manson, Bruce Allan, 1938-

Reference: OHInt-0098-08

Description: Bruce Allan Manson was born in Invercargill in 1938. Talks about his family's origins in the Shetland Islands and their settlement on Campbell Island from 1884 to 1948. Describes their move from Stewart Island to Invercargill. Recalls starting work at Ocean Beach freezing works, going on to the union executive and the Southland Trades Council. Discusses meat industry conditions, including lack of hygiene, packaging and working with knives. Describes being the Southland Trades Council representative on the National Council and the Federation of Labour (FOL). Discusses FOL personalities Fintan Patrick Walsh, Frank McNulty, Sid Arnst, Toby Hill, Jock Barnes and Frank Langley. Talks about getting married in 1959 and building a new house in the group housing scheme in Layard Street. Describes being elected to the Invercargill City Council at the age of twenty-six, winning a bursary to the Trade Union Congress Education Department at Oxford, returning and liaising with Otago University to set up an education programme for unions in Southland. Describes continual stoppages at the Ocean Beach freezing works. Reflects on life in Invercargill, the 1966 election and the charisma of Norman Kirk. Recalls becoming disillusioned with the Federation of Labour. Describes moving to Auckland and working for Fletchers, initially on the New Plymouth power project. Describes becoming Vice-President and then President of the Auckland Employers Association. Recalls Ministers of Labour including Arthur Faulkner, Peter Gordon, Jim Bolger and Jack Marshall. Comments on deregistration and trade union reaction to the Employers Contract Act. Describes ill health, leaving Fletchers in 1986 and becoming a consultant in Kerikeri. Talks about the Resource Management Act, being on the Far North District council and the future of New Zealand. Venue - Kerikeri : 1995 Interviewer(s) - David Young Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006158; OHC-006159; OHC-006160; OHC-006161 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1388. Search dates: 1938 - 1995

Date: ca 1910

From: Atkinson, J :Photographs taken in the Middle East during World War I, and postcards of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-091861-F

Description: Bluff Freezing Works, circa 1910. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: On original postcard, top left: Freezing works, Bluff, NZ Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1970

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

By: New Zealand Paper Mills

Reference: AW-0139

Description: Views of Southland. Frames 1 and 4 were taken at Queens Park, Invercargill; frame 5 was taken inside the Tuatapere sawmill; frame 7 shows the inside of cereal factory packaging Champion Rolled Oats (possibly in the Creamoata Factory, Gore). Frames 8 to 9 show sheep in the Lorneville salesyards, and frame 10 is of the Mataura freezing works and paper mill. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Sourse of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1970

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-0142

Description: Views of men at work inside the meatworks at the Lorneville plant of the Alliance Group Freezing Works, near Invercargill, Southland. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Sourse of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 9 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 13 and 20 September 2013

From: Picton Freezing Works oral history project

By: McLaren, Brian, 1931-

Reference: OHInt-1621-01

Description: Interview with Brian McLaren by Loreen Brehaut recorded on 13 and 20 September 2013. Topics covered in the interview include: family and early life; time as jockey apprentice; friendships formed at freezing works; applying for job at Picton Freezing Works; marriage and children; off-season jobs; starting work at Picton Freezing Works; working at Makarewa Freezing Works; solo butchering; meat inspectors and hygiene changes; worker's pay and contracts; involvement in union and compulsory unionism; seniority rules; closure of Picton Freezing Works; managers worked under; Blenheim Freezing Works; and types of workers at freezing works. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 Interview(s). 7 digital sound recording(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 1 Electronic document(s) digital abstract. 1 printed abstract(s) includes recording agreement form. Search dates: 13/09/2013 - 20/09/2013

Date: 1926

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Anderson, Robert Albert (Sir), 1866-1942

Reference: Pan-0278-F

Description: Panoramic view of the Ocean Beach Freezing Works taken by R P Moore in 1926 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - "Ocean Beach Freezing Works, 1926" R.A. Anderson Invercargill [?] Crescent 6 B & W." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.8 x 133.4 cm

Date: 1926

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-0280-F

Description: Panoramic view of the Mataura Freezing Works buildings, part of the Southland Frozen Meat Produce Export Company. Taken by Robert Percy Moore in 1926 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - "J. Gilkison c/- J.E. Watson Tay St Invercargill ...3 B & W"; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Mataura Freezing Works 1926 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 112.8 cm