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SLAB OF ICE WEIGHING 1.600 POUNDS.

THE DUBYPERICE &

ICE WORKS

EXTERIOR VIEW OF AND COLD STORES

AT

EAST POINT,

for the round trips at Hong Kong, thus enabling them to avoid encroaching upon the restricted food supplies of England and Canada. Owing to the foresight of the management a full supply of frozen meats, butter, etc., was maintained in Hong Kong throughout the War. Every demand-and some of the demands were very great- was fully met, no trouble being deemed too great in supplying the needs of ships. Day or night, orders were fulfilled and deliveries made to suit every convenience of the ships concerned. This department is in the hands of men carefully trained in the handling of goods with care and cleanliness, as well as their stowage in ships' refrigerators and ice-boxes. The men are provided with uniforms by the Company, giving them a spick-and-span appearance, and they are housed in up-to-date sanitary quarters on the Company's premises. The Company now owns four steam launches, one motor boat and two lighters fitted with steam cranes, the cleanliness and full efficiency of these craft receiving constant attention.

The following are some of the leading steamship lines supplied by the Company with milk butter, meats, poultry, ice, etc. :—

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., Ltd.; Canadian Pacific Ocean Services, Ltd. British India: Messageries Maritimes: Pacific Mail S S Co. (Admiral Line); Eastern and Australian: Nippon Yusen Kaisha: Osaka Shosen Kaisha, etc.

THE EAST POINT WORKS.

This part of the establishment was the original Hong Kong Ice Co. which in 1918 was merged into the Dairy Farm Co., to form The Dairy Farm, Ice and Cold Storage Co., Ltd., Hong Kong. Big extensions and alterations have been made to enable it to meet the requirements of the different departments. For instance, since the Company obtained this property it has added 9,854 square feet of floor space for the preparation and packing of meats alone. After many years of painstaking and often sad experiences, owing mainly to climatic conditions, the Company has at last succeeded in devising and building suitable appliances for the curing of meats. The old steam plant has been dismantled, and more powerful, up-to-date and economical machinery substituted. The fifty-ton refrigerating plant now in operation is driven by a 140 B.H.P. gas engine, the gas being produced on the premises by the open-hearth system. The refrigerating engine consists of a belt-driven, horizontal double-acting ammonia compressor,

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