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Freezing workers

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Freezing workers

Meat freezing was big business in Southland from the 1880s. These workers were photographed in the slaughterhouse of the Ocean Beach freezing works at Bluff in 1933.

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Southland Museum and Art Gallery

Reference: 2001

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David Grant, Southland region – Growth on the plains, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/20119/freezing-workers (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by David Grant, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 May 2015.