BEST COLD STORAGE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 712, 11 January 1910, Page 8

BEST COLD STORAGE.

THE PADDOCKS ff,ilj.-:.''OrBell:,:, : (ohaiman of pthe.: Brii HsWNeiv.'-ZeliMd'' ; : of. iC|irlsCcli9r9li)4»' thiiiksi'.'tbat'itKe :paddocks, tKemselves'fbrrh' ■th'-C x 'best' l ' < 'cold sto^ago >, for peat\ la .addressing his shareholders IfistV'Week lie..said. : 1 .-

"A 6hort:time: ago 'there;-ivas : :ari:'agita-. tion' for : the .. of' additionalveold storageii Kthe /Dominion, ; expressed the .opinion that, it ".was entirely:' 6ary, and . that the J,farmers' ' paddocks afforded tho-cheapest storago they could ;get:;:. In making these:.remarks I intended to imply'lthatXthf. ireezing companies, ';'at' any^;rato ; in;.'Canterbufj;v:had: ample: storage,: aid :Wero : as .fast us the it was. .:npt : ; heid 'jback, .for , .reasons.previously' Stated. ■ r"k ; : ;

' "L am supported in thisvview byl'thei' fact that a few years 1 ago, 'wh'en. l we' had oily ' half ; freezing capacity, .'.and, our export.. .was:/about, 'three/miUion, carcasses pc!i' "annum, farmci's'vwero seMomunablo tlieyhud- to-.w-ait'-thc-ir turn it; was-only for fev,' ; days.'\Now theacMmniodation. is';-dpubled. ./Some-of luy; friends disagree! •with, ' me,'.and.ask'. what; : aboutdry' season.' .wheh'a -fafmer -niusrfc get rid of .his fnt 'stuff? .My'reply .is that during:a dry season lambs .'fatten: muck more, evenly;ancl regularly, than during a.wet.onc, anil' ' that'|,,the;'.free-ziu'g ; works' , can. meet the ;demand for''slaughtering..'and. storage ;wheiV the .'supply is and thus 'shipments' could .be' regulated. nionth-'by ,month; : ; ■ ■ ,

*"[' have had nearly thirty gears'' -experienco in breeding anil, fattening lambs, ' and I confidently assort that-if the lambs are sent; forward when ripe, aiid shipped without delay; .there', would bo no trouble fabqut //slaughtering' 'and '' storing; nor : would. we hear more ■of > theVagitation for. 1 increased storage,: ; If heavy '-'shipments liavo to be made, let. theiri arrivo at Homo when, the consumption, is at.high''water' mark;'/"'lt is,,only .three ,or -..four 'years ■ago : when there ■ was grumbling 'about:,. New Zcaland/'shippers not sending their.'meat when it was required. ■" At the: end- of tho' stores .were. :full ;of; Now vZeakhd many of .which were, condemned: when put on the. . market, "and the remainder, being fs'taie and: in.;bad 'condition;* \ror«K«old ..atj ruinous/prices.":,, ' ■ : .-. ';.