Story: Gear, James

Label for Gear Meat Preserving and Freezing Company's tinned roast mutton

Label for Gear Meat Preserving and Freezing Company's tinned roast mutton

Wellington butcher James Gear set up a meat preserving plant in 1873 so that tinned meat could be supplied to local and distant markets, a venture that proved to be a lasting success.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Gear Meat Company Collection (Eph-F-MEAT-Gear)
Reference: Eph-F-MEAT-Gear-014-2

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G. R. Hawke. 'Gear, James', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1990, updated September, 2022. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1g6/gear-james (accessed 27 April 2024)