We started exporting frozen meat. The first shipment of frozen meat left Port Chalmers for Britain in 1882. A year later, freezing works opened in Christchurch, Wellington and Hawke’s Bay. Supplied/Stuff The works of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company at Belfast, north of Christchurch, in 1900. One of the paper’s reporters later spent “a very pleasant hour” at the freezing works, and went into some detail.

Source: Stuff January 27, 2021 16:02 UTC