OVERCOMING PREJUDICE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 246, 14 October 1908, Page 5

OVERCOMING PREJUDICE.

I — ESTABtISHMEJVT OP CO-OPERA-TIVE STORES. (Received 8.40 a.m.) PARIS, October 13. The Refrigeration Conference passed a resolution recommending the use of frozen meat for troops in peace and war. Th c Conference appointed a committee to carry on a propaganda to remove wrong impressions and prejudices against frozen produce, and to arrange for the establishment of co-operative cold stores in all the chief towns and ports of the Continent. Mr. Cooke, on behalf of Australia, welcomed the conference as likely to prove a means of breaking down many Continental prejudices against frozen meat. PARIS, October 13. The international congress on refrigeration appointed the nucleus of an international association to give effect to Mr. Coghlan's, Mr. Gilbert Anderson's, and other resolutions. The next conference is to be held in Vienna in 1910. Mr. Coghlan's motion was to the effect that in order to reduce the cost of living to workers and promote international trnde, regulations hampering the introduction of frozen or chilled produce, or the storage, distribution, and I sale of produce in any country, should be modified or abolished. Mr. Anderson's motion referred to the necessity of an international standar-1 of meat inspection, the basis of the New Zealand Act being suggested.