URUGUAYAN PARTY

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32640, 23 June 1971, Page 24

URUGUAYAN PARTY

Study of meat

works in N.Z. Six Uruguayans will arrive in Christchurch today on a fact finding tour of meatworks in the South Island. They are representatives of the Profrigos Unit, a group set up in Uruguay and sponsored by the World Bank to investigate meat production with a view to expanding and modernising the Uruguayan meat industry. They are in New Zealand to study methods, lay-out of beef houses, machinery used, and labour organisation in meat works.

The visit is, a sequel to a study sponsored by the World Bank carried out in Uruguay by New Zealand and United States meat production experts last year which recommended that a group should be set up in Uruguay to administer planning for the , country’s meat industry and 'to dispatch delegations to study overseas developments. The meat industry in. Uruguay is responsible for 85 per cent of exports.

One of the New Zealanders who visited Uruguay last, year, Mr S. C. Gentry, a, Wellington engineer, is travelling with the group which consists of the head of the ! Profrigos Unit (Mr L. A ' Bauparda), a technical assistant, three veterinarians, and a lawyer. The party will travel to Tirnaru and then to Pareora to inspect the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company’s new beef house, which the company says contains some of the most modem beef-proces-sing equipment in the world. An inspection of the Alliance works in Southland is also planned.