Gisborne City Photos - Taruheru Freezing Works Monument

Taruheru Freezing Works Monument

Loisel Street, Gisborne New Zealand

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The Taruheru Freezing Works Monument - Plaque

Nelson Brothers commenced the region's first meat processing on this site 15 November 1889.

These works closed in 1923 because of river silting and the opening of further works at Kaiti, Tokomaru Bay, Waipaoa and Hicks Bay, between 1896 and 1921

Gisborne Regional Committee November 1989.

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Taruheru Freezing Works Monument - Loisel Street, Gisborne. NZ

Drive to the end of Loisel Street - and the Monument is sited on the grass reserve alongside the Taruheru River . . .