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Taranaki man Johnston Noble is arguably one of the country's longest confined freezing workers, afterwards alpha his career in 1960.
It's been 30 years aback the freezing works in the Taranaki boondocks of Waitara shut its doors for the final time. Deena Coster lifts the lid on its accomplished and looks at the site's future.
For Johnston Noble, the area of Waitara's old freezing works are his tūrangawaewae - his abode to stand.
Since 1960, the bulb - in its assorted guises - has been his abode of application and finer a additional home.
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The Anzco bulb in Waitara, which sits on the old freezing works site, now employs 210 people.
"I've consistently been committed to the meat industry."
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His alikeness with the Waitara freezing works, which has been a notable battleground in his hometown aback 1881, saw him bless his 60th altogether there with colleagues, organising hāngī to be delivered to the dining room.
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What Borthwicks freezing works in Waitara looked like in 1910.
He has such a able affiliation to the abode that he took it aloft himself to organise Friday's blessing of the central of the Stafford St plant, which is now endemic and operated by his current employer Anzco Foods.
"It's a airy affair for me as far as I am concerned," he says.
He says the ceremony, performed by Reverend Albie Martin, will accompany new activity to the place and get rid of any ghosts of the accomplished in the process.
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The armpit of the old freezing works has been a key battleground in the arctic Taranaki boondocks of Waitara aback 1881.
And it is assuredly a armpit which has been attenuated by tragedy.
Over the decades three fires accept swept through the plant, hundreds of bodies absent their livelihoods aback redundancies began at the works in 1989 and its cease eight years afterwards brought a baby boondocks to its banking knees.
Known as Borthwicks, Waitaki and then Affco, afterwards its assorted owners, the freezing works acclimated to be a primary disciplinarian of the Waitara economy. In its heydey, it active 1200 people, which is about a fifth of the town's accepted population.
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Graeme Duckett was one of 600 bodies who were fabricated bombastic from the freezing works in 1989.
Infrastructure was also built about the plant, including roading and railway improvements, forth with the architecture of a anchorage at the aperture of the Waitara river.
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Future - Blood On The Money on Vimeo | future blood on the moneyA job at the freezing works aback afresh was advised to be one you had for life. The plant was absolutely self- sufficient, employing its own carpenters, plumbers and engineers.
Historian and above freezing artisan Graeme Duckett declared the works as the "life claret of the town".
A photograph of the Borthwicks annihilation agents in 1982, larboard to right, Wayne Holdt, David Lehndorf (manager), Kay Brunning (office), Geoff Zimmerman and Graeme Duckett.
So aback the aboriginal beachcomber of redundancies hit in 1989, they cut deep. Duckett was one of 600 who activate themselves out of work.
"It befuddled the town. I anticipate it was the abhorrence that it was absolutely happening."
Before he got a job at Borthwicks in 1978, Duckett was a boner earning about $60 a week. When he began at the works his pay packet went up immediately to $180-200.
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Graeme Duckett formed at the Waitara freezing works for 14 years and acclimated to advice aftermath an in abode annual alleged Smutt.
After appointment to the boning floor, he would get between $200-300 a anniversary in the duke and if he formed during the calving division he could sometimes abridged a massive $2200.
Duckett's kept his payslips from that time.
"I adored some of those because I knew I would never see that affectionate of money again," he says.
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Johnston Noble is 72 years of age but still works accouterment in the meat industry, 57 years afterwards he began his career.
Union pressures, aggregation mismanagement, including accident contracts, and expectations to accession standards aural the industry were all factors in the Waitara freezing works' demise, Duckett says.
There was a lot of decay as well. One of the best abominable things for Duckett was the bulk of annexation which went on at the company.
Prime cuts of meat and added accessories went walkabouts on a approved basis, he says.
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Beef actuality dressed on the attic of the freezing works about 1910.
Duckett says he knows of some who congenital their houses on the aback of what they pilfered from the works.
After leaving, Duckett went aback to alive in a annihilation in the boondocks afore alteration careers and affective into the annihilation business.
He says some of his ex-workmates were not so advantageous and never activate assignment again, or died young.
Johny Jury, Harry Forde and Jack (Sausage) Limmer in the old Borthwicks boner boutique in Waitara during the aboriginal 1960s.
"There's guys as adolescent as 40 in the cemetery because they had annihilation else. The works were all they knew. They had no hobbies, nothing."
"When you formed for Borthwicks you anticipation you were set for life," Duckett says.
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A 1979 blaze devastated the meat works, one of three blaze crews abounding at the armpit over the years.
Its cartoons and sketches accent the exploits of the workers, sometimes demography the mickey out of bodies or making a point about someone's behaviour.
Like any ancestors unit, there was little you could get abroad with at the works without addition abroad award out about it.
"Some of it was ambiguous but anybody saw the funny ancillary of it," Duckett says of Smutt.
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An alien appearance of the Borthwicks freezing works bulb afterwards the 1979 fire.
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Pat Montgomerie says the freezing works were accepted as "the university" - the abode area you got accomplished in all the aspects of life.
He began his administration at the works in 1953 and he concluded up demography back-up 44 years later, 24 months away from retirement.
Starting on the beef and mutton chains, Montgomerie remembers the job to be physically demanding.
"I bethink accepting no agitation activity to beddy-bye at night. I was buggered."
Eventually, he formed his way up to a administration role.
Bomb scares are one affair which stand out for Montgomerie aback he looks aback on his time at the works. In total, there were about 26 of them.
They all angry up to be antic calls, but it meant the accomplished bulb had to be abandoned and assignment came to a angle still.
"An hour's pay for anybody out on the aisle absolutely added up," he says.
The bread-and-butter allowances the works provided to the boondocks admitting were palpable.
"The boondocks did able-bodied aback the works were going. It was brilliant," Montgomerie says.
Income from freezing workers not alone pumped money into the shopkeepers' coffers, it additionally helped to prop up various community and sports clubs about the town, including league, rugby, canoeing and softball.
That all afflicted aback the works' annihilation began. Not alone did the money dry up, but bodies disappeared, abrogation boondocks to acquisition work.
The fate of those asleep from the amount was consistently at the beginning of Kay Brunning's apperception as the redundancies cut a bind through the company.
Everyone was in a accompaniment of shock aback the job losses began, she says.
"My better anticipation was what they were activity to do.
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For years they enjoyed safe, abiding employment, earning acceptable money to abutment their families.
"And afresh it was over."
Brunning spent 23 years at the works afore she took autonomous redundancy. She spent abundant of her time there in the annihilation boutique as its arch cashier.
"It was so active there," she says.
At the acme of a day's trading in the business, she says $20,000 could canyon through the tills.
"It was unbelievable."
For Brunning, the meat works was a abode abounding of "comradeship, accord and aggregate like that".
"There were like 1000 guys there and I knew the lot of them," she says.
"I acclimated to anticipate it was a huge family."
Brunning recalls the time aback acceptable a freezing artisan was a career goal, a alleyway which would accommodate a job for activity for the artisan and alike their own children.
"That was aloof how it acclimated to be."
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For Noble, that is how it still is for him.
At 72, he is arguably one of New Zealand's longest serving meat workers.
During his career he has been made redundant alert but now works at Anzco Foods. He was one of the aboriginal assimilation of about 15 advisers to activate at the business aback it aboriginal opened in 2005.
The award-winning operation turns algid and arctic meats into gourmet articles like salami, burger patties, hasty articles and ham.
"It was a big addition that it came to Waitara. I was absolutely blessed about that," Noble says.
About 210 bodies currently assignment at the site, which operates seven canicule a week. Of those, 160 are in the processing department, including Noble.
Seven years on afterwards acceptable acceptable for his pension, it's the adulation of the job which still gets him out of bed every morning.
"I apperceive the aggregation (Anzco) has got a ablaze approaching while it is here," he says.
He says the success of the industry is in the easily of those on the front-line, whose application and grind can advice create a solid foundation for the next generation of workers.
"I would be blessed to see that happen."
Until then, Noble's agreeable to do what he can to contribute to the company's fortunes. He says he knows there will be a time aback he has to alarm in for his final shift.
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