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Wednesday, 19 November 2025

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    Photo: Mataura Historical Society
    Photo: Mataura Historical Society
    This black and white photograph depicts workers at the Mataura meat processing plant in the 1920s or 1930s. 

    In 1887, the Mataura plant replaced Southland Frozen Meat’s first slaughterhouse, at Charlton, just north of Mataura.  

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