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Haurongo: Gear, James

Label for Gear Meat Preserving and Freezing Company's tinned roast mutton

Label for Gear Meat Preserving and Freezing Company's tinned roast mutton

Wellington butcher James Gear set up a meat preserving plant in 1873 so that tinned meat could be supplied to local and distant markets, a venture that proved to be a lasting success.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Gear Meat Company Collection (Eph-F-MEAT-Gear)

Reference: Eph-F-MEAT-Gear-014-2

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

G. R. Hawke. 'Gear, James', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1990, whakahou September 2022. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/191/label-for-gear-meat-preserving-and-freezing-companys-tinned-roast-mutton (accessed 4 June 2026).