Refrigerating Plant For
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Wewak
A COMPLETE refrigeration and ice making plant to be installed by Mr.
W. H. Parer at Wewak (on the north coast of New Guinea), was sent away by the November Macdhui. Mr. Parer hoped to have the plant in operation by Christ mas to supply ice and perishable goods to Wewak residents, and miners on the nearby goldfield.
Manufactured by Messrs. James Budge Ltd., of Alexandria, Sydney, the plant comprises two insulated cold rooms, each nine feet square by eight feet high, and an insulated ice tank with a capacity for making 10 cwt. of ice a day. Driven by a diesel engine, the equipment in cludes a three-ton Budge ammonia com pressor, atmospheric condenser, expan sion coils, cold storage cylinders for the cold rooms, and coils and ice-moulds for the ice-making tank.