MR CAMERON INTERVIEWED.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 186, 7 August 1900, Page 2

MR CAMERON INTERVIEWED.

"British ■ Refrigeration" has high praise for "Progressive New Zealand" guarding the reputation of her producers, and has interviewed Mr Cameron, its "energetic, business-like expert" on the proceedings against the Blackpool butcher. Mr Cameron said that, of course, the Government was going on with the case, arid intended to do all in its power to protect the interests of all parties concerned in New Zealand produce generally. The producer in New Zealand, the trader, or wholesale and retail butcher, and the consumer, were he said, all adversely affected by the sale of an inferior article under the guise of New Zealand meat. T#he Government intended to protect them against this and to conserve the high standard already reached. In the Midlands, the North, and "In Scotland honest traders opening establishments for the sole purpose of selling New Zealand frozen meat were, said Mr Cameron; much hampered by the unscrupulous selling as New Zea^ land meat meat of an inferior quality. He maintained that the colony offers an object lesson to the people in the United Kingdom which might well be copied in the dairying- districts. The British farmers ought to learn refrigeration and adopt the New Zealand methods of co-operation. Mr Cameron was strong for refrigeration, but also spoke up for the use of preservatives. "So far," he said, "as the butter is concerned up to the time that it is offered for sale here, I say emphatically that refrigeration alone- is the method. But after it is offered for sale, it is bought and conveyed to the grocer's store, where it may have to •remain for several days unsold.. Refrigeration cannot preserve it <ii en, be*

cause refrigeration is not tised here as it ought to be; and the grocer is unable to keep his butter in cold storage. Therefore some of the harmless preservatives are of undoubted service and ought not to be objected to. They would, of course, be added to the butter over there. The limit of their application should, however, be specified."

Mr Cameron concluded by declaring that a more general recognition of refrigeration would revolutionise' the agricultural interests of the United Kingdom.