REFRIGERATION.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20730, 15 December 1932, Page 13

REFRIGERATION.

BUENOS AIRES CONGRESS. RIVALRY JN RESEARCH. LTHE PEESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, December JJ. The uses made of dry ice for goods in transit .in the Argentine greatly impressed Mr Robert Sanders, of Auckland, who lias returned from a visit to South America, where lie acted as the Now Zealand representative, cx-oflicio, at the sixth international congress of refrigeration at Buenos Aires. The most interesting example quoted by Mr Sanders was the carriage oL' lobsters across the South American Continent by aeroplane. "They catch the lobsters on KuUnison Crusoe's Island, Juan Fernandez, off the coast of Chile, and bring them in tanks to Valparaiso," lie said. "There they arc packed into an aeroplane insulated with dry ice, which is from eight to ten times colder than ordinary ice. and are conveyed by air across the Andes to Buenos Aires, on the opposite coast. These aeroplanes run a regular service, supplying the-market in Buenos Aires with lobsters, and tlio price tho pooplo of that city give for theso lobsters is six times the price for which they can be obtained in Valparaiso. '' Chilling of Beef. - Tho chilling of beef, although universally adopted in tho Argentine, left plenty of room for improvement, s.iid Mr Sanders. Beef so prepared would only last nine days, ft could not be refrozen, and in the event of the British market being glutted the meat had to be disposed of at any price the buyers liked to name. Great rivalry prevailed in research, which was proceeding with tho object of extending tho period that chilled meat would keep, and the delegates attending the refrigeration congress kept a good deal of secret information up their sleeves.