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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Adam, J. and Co

Adam, J. and Co. (John Adam and John Munro Fraser), Bacon Curers, Mechanics' Bay, Auckland; Branch at Tawhiti, Hawera, Taranaki. Established 1894. Telephone 211, P.O. Box 520. This flourishing business, which is one of the largest in the North Island, was first started by the present firm in 1894. They rented from the Auckland Freezing Company a large space in its building, and carried on the business there, preparatory to erecting the present spacious premises. The progress of the business has been phenomenal from the first, and throughout New Zealand and Australia there is an ever increasing demand for goods bearing the firm's well-known brand of “A.B.C.” In fact, the demand in Sydney is so great that the firm is often unable to execute the orders. It has, therefore, been compelled to open new works at Hawera, in Taranaki, modelled in every respect on the Auckland establishment. The Auckland factory is a large building of wood and iron, with 130 feet of frontage and a depth of 120 feet. There are cooling, drying, and smoking chambers, and the factory has a twelve-and-a-half ton Hercules refrigerating engine, with a spraying machine, driven by a Babcock and Wilcock water tube-boiler of the latest design. There are large cooling and freezing chambers for butter, meat, eggs, fish, and poultry, and all sorts of produce. Ice-making is a branch of the work, and ice is supplied at the nominal price of one halfpenny per pound. The firm exhibited at Sydney in 1900 at the Royal Show, and won first prize for hams; and in the same year won three first prizes at Dunedin for the finest hams and bacon; and first prize at the Normanby Show. The firm put through 11,000 pigs in the year 1899. Only the finest quality of dairy-fed pork is used, and the utmost care is exercised in curing.