Story: Wairarapa region
For much of the 20th century the Waingawa meat works, just south of Masterton, were Wairarapa’s largest employer. The works closed in 1989 when killing was centralised at new plants in southern Hawke’s Bay. By 2006, the buildings were derelict.
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