There was not much livestock in the Hutt Valley, where Gear Meat Works was established in 1882. But its proximity to the railway on which the livestock arrived, and a port, Wellington, from which the meat was shipped, made it an optimal location for a meat freezing works.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Whites Aviation Collection
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WA-30274
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