Image
When refrigerated shipping became viable in 1882, it opened up the export trade in frozen rabbit meat. These men are loading hundreds of rabbit carcasses onto trucks at Dipton, Southland, in 1948. The rabbits have been gutted, and will be taken to freezing plants, then skinned and frozen for export.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
Reference: AANR 6329 55 A 38-39-29 Min 5-39
Permission of Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga must be obtained before any re-use of this material.