1 gen 1895 anni - First crayfish canning factory

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For some years crayfish canning factories were located in Akaroa. The first factory,
established by a Dunedin firm, Messrs Irvine and Stevenson, began production in 1895
on a site up Selwyn Avenue. It had closed down by 1903. In 1898, a local businessman
Graecen Black bought the old immigration barracks which had been built on the corner
of Jolie Street and Bruce Terrace in 1874, but been used as a barracks for only a short
period. Black had part of the old barracks re-erected on the foreshore of Red House Bay
(Takapuneke) for use as a crayfish canning factory. In 1901, Black sold this factory to
Irvine and Stevenson who re-opened it in 1905. In 1935 another crayfish canning factory
opened in Akaroa on Rue Jolie north (where the Balguerie Stream flows into the sea). It
continued in operation after the end of World War II and closed only when a freezing
plant was installed on the main wharf. Until the 1940s, the crayfish were taken using ring
pots, placed at sea using dinghies

Source: https://ccc.govt.nz/assets/Documents/The-Council/Plans-Strategies-Policies-Bylaws/Plans/district-plan/banks-peninsula/AkaroaHistoricalOverview-part-1.pdf