And Adequate Sausage[?]

New Freezer

And Adequate Sausage[?] For Rarolon

AT the March 15 opening of RaE tonga’s new Freezer (built Christchurch contractors, a', cost of £32,000), stocks were aim nil due to the event being in “hurricane season.” Ten days la the Waitemata brought 7 J . tons, meat and butter from New Z: land.

The Freezer consists of an tractive, well-lighted butcher’s shr manager’s office, and separate cc storage rooms for meat, fish, butt and vegetables. There is also an storage room and an ice-maki: plant, capable of producing 1,(, lbs. of ice in 16 hours.

There is space for 9 tons of me:: four tons of fish; and the but: room holds 5i tons at 35 degre Imported fresh vegetables, such potatoes, onions and peas, which not grow well in Rarotonga, will held in a chamber of almost t: tons capacity.

Even during the hurricane seasE Rarotongan residents, both Mai and European, will now ha adequate supplies of imported foe including at least 2,000 lbs. of cheeks and 1,000 lbs of sausag which are sold to Maori custom© each month—as well as ice.

One corner of the Freezer bloc is taken up by the liquor Bond ai Customs, and a centrally situatj engine room, complete with wor shop and storeroom, will serve boc the new Freezer and the Cool Stoc for fruit—when the Cool Store built at an estimated cost of £116,00

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