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Refrigerated shipping encouraged meat companies to build freezing works close to ports, such as this one at Bluff seen around 1910. At that time it was easier to move livestock to the ports than to transport refrigerated produce from rural centres to ports.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Tesla Studios Collection (PAColl-3046)
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by Frank J. Denton
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