Other Names

Current Operation

Location   

Hema Maps – Australia Truckies atlas.

Owner

• Bill and Brian Crowson¹

Operation   

History

1960’s

• Small abattoir built approximately 1 mile from homestead(Pg 26)¹
• Only operational for a year due to several reasons¹
  • Health department requirements of cartage and storage of boxes of beef. Dept wouldn’t accept their method of loading the beef into 20′ cold room on a truck and transported 300km to be loaded in to another cold store.(Pg 27)¹

   

#1. Source. ‘The privileged few’ Jeff Hill. Pg 26
Small meatworks at Montejinni station, built by Bill Crowson in the 1960’s

1973

• Abattoir had lain idle since 1960’s.(Pg 27)¹
• dismantled to open up space for light aircraft.(pg 27)¹
  • Cold room taken to Uralla meats in Katherine – an abattoir Lyn Hayes and Ernie Raynor were establishing between Katherine and Tindal Airbase.(pg 27)¹
  • Note I can’t info on this abattoir – though a pet food meat processor named Uralla is mentioned in some articles.

Sources

1. ‘The privileged few’ Jeff Hill. 2008

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