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Kōrero: Agricultural processing industries

Solo slaughtermen

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Solo slaughtermen

In the first 50 years of New Zealand freezing works, from the 1880s to the 1930s, solo slaughtermen, who were highly skilled butchers, carried out all the operations on the carcass. The solo slaughtermen at the freezing works at Whakatū, Hastings, pause to pose for the camera in the 1920s or 1930s.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, H. N. Whitehead Collection (PAColl-3068)

Reference: 1/1-019279; G

by Henry Norford Whitehead

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.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jane Tolerton, Agricultural processing industries – Freezing works, 1880s to the 1970s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/25188/solo-slaughtermen (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jane Tolerton, i tāngia i te 6 April 2010.