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A lasting legacy : a 125 year history of New Zealand farming since the first frozen meat shipment

The shipment of frozen meat that left New Zealand's shores on February 15, 1882, has arguably shaped the country's future more than any other single event since. While it as not the first refrigerated shipment of meat from the Southern Hemisphere, by pure hard work, determination and attention to detail, it was easily the most successful of its day and was duly recognised at the time as a truly groundbreaking event. New Zealand today is founded on the foresight and nerve of those who made it happen

Print Book, English, 2007
NZ Rural Press, Auckland, N.Z., 2007