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Borthwicks meat label

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Borthwicks meat label

British companies with food distribution interests in the UK invested in the New Zealand meat-freezing industry. Borthwicks built and operated the Waitara freezing works in Taranaki. This label went on the canned ox tongue that was one of Borthwicks products.

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Reference: Eph-F-MEAT-Gear-054-1

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Malcolm McKinnon, International economic relations – Britain and New Zealand, 1900 to 1940, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/24801/borthwicks-meat-label (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 2 March 2010.