New Zealand - Gisborne - Kaiti Freezing Works - 1949 - Photographer Unknown Freezing works - Freezing works employed many workers, both skilled and unskilled, and paid them comparatively high wages. - In 1927 Gisborne Sheepfarmers Frozen Meat and Mercantile Company, with its large Kaiti works on the Gisborne waterfront, boasted that it was the largest employer of labour and largest distributor of wealth in Poverty Bay. Kaiti - A suburb of the New Zealand city of Gisborne - Located immediately to the east of the city centre, on the opposing bank of the Waimata River - Kaiti Hill or Titirangi overlooks Poverty Bay with Young Nick's Head across the Bay - Titirangi also overlooks the city. The Turanganui River is below it, and separates Kaiti from the Gisborne Central Business District. Gisborne - Gisborne is a city in northeastern New Zealand and the largest settlement in the Gisborne District. - The settlement was originally known as Turanga and renamed Gisborne in 1870 in honour of New Zealand Colonial Secretary William Gisborne. - The Gisborne region has been settled for over 700 years. For centuries the region has been inhabited by the tribes of tribes of Te Aitanga-a-M?haki, Rongowhakaata, Ng?i T?manuhiri and Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti. People from Gisborne - Murray Ball (born 1939), cartoonist - Witi Ihimaera (born 1944), author - Bailey Mackey (born 1977), former head of sport for Maori Television - Margaret Moth (1951'2010), CNN photojournalist - Henare te Ua (1933'2007), broadcaster - Neil Waka, former TVNZ journalist - Joy Watson (born 1938), award-winning author Reference - Wikipedia Video: New Zealand National Film Unit presents These New Zealanders No. 1 - Gisborne (1963) New Zealand television and radio personality Selwyn Toogood visits Gisborne on the east coast of the North Island. He talks to some of the townspeople about life in this centre of farming and market gardening. Photography KELLAR FOWLER Sound VAL FEDEROFF Assistant Director JOHN COOPER Mr Toogoods wardrobe by CAMBRIDGE Writer and Director DAVID H. FOWLER Producers GEOFFREY SCOTT, OXLEY HUGHAN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2tSoTca1YA Image source: Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections NZMS-1803-01132 https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/photos/id/62157 #gisborne