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Tomoana freezing works closure

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Tomoana freezing works closure

Tomoana workers retrieve their belongings after the closure of the freezing works near Hastings in 1994. The closure and downsizing of businesses in the late 1980s and 1990s affected a disproportionately high percentage of Māori workers.

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Matene Love and Tyron Love, Ngā umanga – Māori business enterprise – History of Māori enterprise, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/24544/tomoana-freezing-works-closure (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Matene Love and Tyron Love, published 2 March 2010.

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Zak Coombs
24 July 2016
Good morning, I found your site and the contact details on the www. I am trying to find someone to help or advise me on some research into the old Pomona Freezing Works, with particular emphasis on the Volunteer Fire Brigade that served the works. Do hope you might be able to help me in this quest or advise me of a contact who may be able to help me in this search? Many thanks in advance for your time and interest, Zak Coombs From Cheltenham, England