CHILLED MEAT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 601, 1 September 1909, Page 10

CHILLED MEAT.

A SHIPMENT FROM AUSTRALIA. In view of the recent advocacy of developing a chilled meat trado from Now Zealand, it is interesting to note that arrangements liavo been, made for a trial shipment of chilled beef from Australia.. Mr. Piatt,'the engineer of the Improved Chilling Company,, has go;io to the Kcdbank Works, Quesnsland, :to lit Hp tlio Accessary machinery for applying" the Linley process to a shipment of beef which will bo made from those works in the s.s. Marathon. Tlio necessary plant v/as . placed on thij vessel in England. The Marathon, was to leavo Brisbane on August 30, aiid be in London about ' November 1. • 'Hie/ quantity ' of' beef to. be isliipped under the chilled process is 1500 quarters. A , connecting link is the estab•lishmojit at 1 .tboj; Victoria ;P.ock ; ,-.Store oil the Thames of chan'ib'ers' ffliero Sooo"quarters of meat earned by this , system can be Injured under, hygienic conditions and attended to before being marketed. '. ' •- • • The first experiment in _ carrying chilled beef from Australia (according' to "Tlio Pastoralists 1 lleview") was niodo in 1894 —1000 quarters per Port 1 Pine/ a failure. In 1595 tlio Gothic .brought two lots from New Zea-" land, only partially succcsct'ul; tlie Rakaia brought' 500 quarters from Brisbane, quite ■i failure. In .1893 the Urm'st-on Grange, from -Howcn, convey.?'! some beef which had been dipped in a solution. This resulted ill failure.' In 1905 1200 quarters from Dunedin brought •at chilling teniperaturo were condemned on arrival. From Buenos Ayres chilled'beef was pioneered by the R.P.F.M Co. in 1901. , ■