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Speaker 1: Historic places mid Canterbury wanting us to do just that,

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Speaker 1: hosting a celebration of the Fairfield Meatworks next Saturday, the

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Speaker 1: twenty second, at the Fatton Hall gets underway at two pm.

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Speaker 1: All former employees, suppliers, truck drivers, fat lamb drafters, anybody

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Speaker 1: connected to CFM, PPCs and then silver Fern Farms as

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Speaker 1: it was in the latter days more than welcome an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to reconnect with old colleagues, reminisce about the past

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Speaker 1: and of course not let the truth get in the

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Speaker 1: way of some steally yarns. Lal Mulligan and Shirley Falloon

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Speaker 1: dropped by to share a few memories of their own,

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Speaker 1: such as how it all started for CFM one hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty five years ago.

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Speaker 2: Founding father John Grigg was instrumental in getting the freezing

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Speaker 2: works at Fairton up and running. CFM already had freezing

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Speaker 2: works in Belfast and christ Church that they've got underway

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Speaker 2: and about eighteen eighty one, but the local farmers were

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Speaker 2: shipping by train about one hundred and ten thousand lambs

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Speaker 2: a year up to christ Church and they they agitated

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Speaker 2: and said we need freezing works here. So John Gregg

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Speaker 2: and the secretary of CFM, a man called Frederick Weymouth,

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Speaker 2: who interestingly has connections to Mona Vail and christ Church.

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Speaker 2: That's why I like those little fun facts. They got

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Speaker 2: down to Ashburton and had a meeting and they managed

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Speaker 2: to get a large number of run holders to sign

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Speaker 2: up and take shares in the CFM, and they got

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Speaker 2: enough capital to start building a freezing works. Now this

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Speaker 2: was in eighteen ninety eight. The freezing works were opened

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Speaker 2: and under and working in eighteen ninety nine. Incredible, it

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Speaker 2: is amazing. And they actually bought over eighteen hundred acres

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Speaker 2: of land out at Fairton where they built houses churches.

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Speaker 2: They said aside land to build.

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Speaker 1: A village was a bit like what they did in

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Speaker 1: Twice or around the hydrogect exactly, and.

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Speaker 2: They set it up as a village to supply the

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Speaker 2: workers for the freezing works and boom, in ten months

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Speaker 2: it was up and running. It's an incredible story. And

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Speaker 2: our founding father John Gregg, was instrumental in getting the

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Speaker 2: freezing works here and we've got we owe him a lot.

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Speaker 2: If we hadn't had freezing works, the stocking rate in

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Speaker 2: MD Canterbury would have remained the same. A lot of

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Speaker 2: sheep when they got old, they killed them because they

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Speaker 2: were only growing for their wool. It was the only

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Speaker 2: thing you could export. So when the meat freezing industry

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Speaker 2: got underway, it was a transform transformation for this area

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Speaker 2: and we have a lot to thank those early people

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Speaker 2: who worked out you could freeze meat.

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Speaker 1: We certainly do. One of Jamie McKay's favorite yarns the

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Speaker 1: ship Needen from Port Charmers to the UK with the

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Speaker 1: first frozen shipment eighteen eighty two. Well, they have almost

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Speaker 1: five thousand carcasses on board and despite a technical glitch

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Speaker 1: on the way it was a ninety eight day trip,

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Speaker 1: it arrived into London with just one and a half

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Speaker 1: spoiled carcasses and we have a lot to think that

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Speaker 1: for as well, by the sound of it. So if

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Speaker 1: you would like to be part of this celebration next

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Speaker 1: weekend what was at two pm at the Faton Hall,

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Speaker 1: they would love for you to RISVP by next Thursday,

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Speaker 1: the twentieth. You can do that by finding the number

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Speaker 1: on our website hawking it we dot co, dotting Zed,

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Speaker 1: click the tab that says what's on or get in

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Speaker 1: touch with her at the radio station or pass on

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Speaker 1: Shirley or Lull's number,