COOL STORE SPACE

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23361, 21 June 1941, Page 6

COOL STORE SPACE

EXTENSION PROPOSAL IN ENGLAND

One of the charges made against the Ministry of Food in England is that it has not utilised all the refrigeration space available. Our London correspondent, in a recent communication, states that although the Government has taken full control of the country, nothing has yet been done to organise the many thousands -of small refrigerating installations owned by the meat and other food trades. It is estimated that if these small installations could only be utilised economically, their employment . might add nearly 10,000,000 cubic, feet of cold storage space to that already organised, A retail, meat trader at Liverpool has lately put forward a proposal based on the fact that butchers now have practically all of their refrigerator space empty owing to the meat ration being cut' down to. the , low figure of one shilling’s worth a person weekly. In the Liverpool district there are about 90 butchers, nearly all of

Whom have ■ refrigerators, of a total capacity of 800 tons. Taking into account all the other great population centres, the bis total.of all suchi accommodation now available is emphasised. The. suggestion made is' that all butchers should have issued to them -by the Ministry of Food an extra week’s allocation of meat (which they •could hold in their little store, selling the same amount weekly as before, but always holding the extra week’s supply, which thus becomes part of the big national reserve. Whether the Government will regard the idea as practical and desirable is not yet known, tjxouph trade experts declare it possible. At any rate, a considerable consensus of opinion favours the bringing of the small cold store or refrigerator - owner into line with his (larger. confrere as a custodian of Britain’s food supplies.

KAIKOURA DOG TRIALS

The Kalkoura Collie Club opened its forty-fourth annual trials on Monday on Mr F. J.. Monk’s property at Ludley. Conditions were wintry, but no rain fell. The judge was Mr G. H. Workman. Forty-two dogs competed in class I (open), heading, bringing back, and holding In ring, the results being:—R. G. Johnston’s Clyde, 55 points, 1: E. Q. Rutherford's' Star, 531. 2; R. M. Wilson's Hope, S3, 3; J. E. Laldlaw’a Glen, 49, 4.

The ranges received their first real snow covering of the year on Wednesday night. The fall came right'down to the bottom of . the . foothills and extended, on to the flats in some parts, there being up to one-inch gnd a half in some arable districts. It soon disappeared under the brighter weather that set in next day, and the benefit to crops'which generally follows a good fall of snow Will not be .“this time.” On the ranges, however, the coating is heavy enough to suggest that it will remain there until the spring thaws. The fall did not extend the full length of the province. It appeared to be confined for the most part to south of Springfield and was less pronounced south of the Kangitata. The rough spell of the mid-week appeared to be coastal, as whilst there were sleety showers pnd short bursts of snow in Christchurch on Thursday morning the weather was mild and sunny in south Canterbury. .