FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 277, 20 November 1913, Page 2

FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

BRISTOL DOMINION ASSOCIATION.

03? Telegraph — Pres* Association.)

WELLINGTON. Wednesday. ■ .-. reset-bj: of the New Zealand Board of control of the Bristol and Dominion Producers' Association was held here today Mr. E. J. Caller, of Wellington, «« appointed secretary. A considerable amount of administrative -.york was sett.'cd, and it was decided to make advances on a basis that wonld is r.f=w in the Dominion as regards meat. I: was reported that there were quite a number of shipments of dairy produce already made, and steps were being taken ■■• spzl forward initial shipments of meat. Mr. W. D. Lysnar read a letter from Mjv G. P. Donnelly, who has just retnrred from England, in which he says: '■~n .Ten at Home I made it mv business* to visit both docks, and asked the High Commissioner to allow Mr. Crabbe (the Government Veterinary Surgeon and aaeat) to accompany mc. which he did. After going over the Bristol docka I 'injilelf say there L; no comparison as tar d.~ the handling of frozen meat and produce 13 concerned. The accommoiion for transhipping could not be better a: Bristol, and if the;* carry ont further improvements in the accommodation, which I was informed they intend doing, it win be everything that i= i r-quired for our frozen meat and other products. I was more than surprised at the handling of frozen meat at the other docks in London. After all those years of the shipping of frozen meat, it ] is surprising to see the primitive style in which the work is done. I actually found them running the frozen meat, from three to five carcases, on hand trollies for a distance of from two to three chairs to the railway trucks, in dust and dirt. As you are aware, the wheels are not above nine inches from the ground. There is no doibt that our going into the matter has given them a great shock, and they now talk of going in for very large improvements. It clearly goes to prove that all you have said was quite justifiable to the shippers in the Dominion.''