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Kōrero: Manawatū and Horowhenua region

Longburn freezing works

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Longburn freezing works

Head supervisor Ian Cruden and by-products manager Keith Rose stand in front of a freezer full of frozen lamb, stacked in such a way that the scene looks like an abstract artwork, in 1985. The works closed two years later.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: EP/1985/3577/16

by Ross Giblin

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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Malcolm McKinnon, Manawatū and Horowhenua region – Challenges: 1960s to 2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/9495/longburn-freezing-works (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 10 January 2013, updated 1 April 2015.