COLD STORAGE DIRECTORY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 51, 1 March 1923, Page 5

COLD STORAGE DIRECTORY.

VALUABLE YEAR BOOK 1922. EXHIBIT IN N.Z. HOUSE WINDOW. (From Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, January 8. Among the many yc_r books which are being issued just now, one of outstanding interest and value to New Zealand primary producers is "Ice and Cold Storage Trades Directory." published by Iliffe. Merely to cite the table of its contents is enough to indicate how useful it is, and for New Zealand exporters who are seeking to determine new and better distributing centres outside London the information it contains is invaluable.

We have ourselves-, been lately obtaining by separate nnd individual inquiries information which we now find between its covers. There is. for example, a romplete list of the cold stores approved for the storage of frozen meat by the Institute of London Underwriter!!, and complementary to this information a list of towns in England and Wales of 20,000 iiihnlritaiits with no public cold storage. A highly important section for New Zealand purposes is that which contains a list of cold stores and ice factories, given under the names of the towns in which they are situated. This directory of towns gives in addition the capacity, output of ice, and various other details as to I In- amount and kind of cold storage available in each of the stores enumerated. There is a highly important financial section in which particulars are given ot nil cold storage companies registered since September, 1921, and these, even in the case of private companies, give particulars of t(ic amount of capital and the names of the directors, i In this list occurs the Newport Storajge and lecvCompanv, which was registered on March 24. ]'.__, with a nominal capital of _1.-.0,000, of which the lirst directors are Sir Abraham Thomas and Messrs. F. Rvder and W. I". Goodwin, who, with Mr. -I. T. Morgan, founded the company. It also gives particulars of the N.Z. Co-operative Dairy Company, which were filed at Somerset House on the 24th .Inly, 1022, of which Mr. VV. Goodfellow. Hamilton, is managing director. There w also in addition to a complete alphabetical list of all cold storage in the Foiled Kingdom a classified list in which two important sections are importers'of dairy produce, and importers of frozen meat. It also contains a list of recent patents granted in connection with cold storage and a description of these patents, so that those interested in the subject can easily see whether such new patent? contain anything likely to be of-use to them.

For the rest there is an extremely technical section containixig tables of temperatures, properties, and capacities of cold storage, ranging from strength of ammonia liquor to velocity of water through pipes. We might add as a topical postscript to this notice that New Zealand House. Strand, is just now showing a properly insulated cold storage sale, one might call it. in one of the windows on the ground floor. Beside the meat which is seen hanging in the cold store there is a very large thermometer, which IS visible from a good range of distance on the paven-ent. showing the low temperature at vhich the meit is being kept. It must be added that the exj nihil appears to have a certain nttrac- ' tion for large numbers of nennl". for both it and. at the opposite extreme. ithe pictorial display of the hot springs of Rotorua which occupies I he other window, have invariably row- two or three deep of people eagerly examining them.