Dates

• Existence: 1889 - 2016

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The chemical laboratory at Islington freezing works analysed material from Smithfield, Picton, Burnside and Imlay works also. The early letterbooks and laboratory analysis books are stamped Christchurch Meat Co. which had freezing works at Islington. These archives seem to have come to this collection from the Alliance Freezing Company (Southland), now the Alliance Group, which has a Christchurch office with works at Sockburn. The Christchurch Meat Company formed in 1889 and opened the Islington Freezing Works the same year, though meat preserving works had been in the area for the last twenty five years. The Christchurch Meat Company became the New Zealand Refrigeration Company in 1916, then became Waitaki New Zealand Refrigeration Ltd in 1976, then Waitaki International in 1986. The freezing works closed in 1988 after a restructuring of the meat industry. In 1992 the Primary Producers Co-operative Society bought the Islington works and the Islington Venison Plant was built, and deer processing continued until 2016

Citation:

(1889, April 17). The Templeton Freezing Works. The Star (Christchurch), p4. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS18890417.2.65

Victoria University of Wellington (2016). Islington. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc03Cycl-t1-body1-d6-d21.html

The Works (2019). The Works Waterloo. https://theworksatwaterloo.co.nz/about-us/

The New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua Me Ngā Taonga Kōrero (n.d.). Morning report. 1988-07-05 (Waitaki International closes two freezing works. Ng`a Taonga Sound and Vision. https://ngataonga.org.nz/collections/catalogue/catalogue-item?record_id=217008

New Zealand Companies Office (n.d.). Waitaki International Limited. Companies Register. https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companies/120281

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