DRY ICE FOR STORAGE

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 70, 15 December 1932, Page 9

DRY ICE FOR STORAGE

Use in South America INSULATED AEROPLANES Dominion Special Service. Auckland, Dee. 14. Uses made of dry ice for goods in. transit in the Argentine greatly impressed Mr. Robert Sanders, of Auckland, who has returned from a visit to South America, where he acted as New Zealand representation ex-officio at the sixth international congress of refrigeration at Buenos Aires. The most interesting example quoted by Mr. Sanders was the carriage of lobsters across tiie South American continent by aeroplane. “They catch lobsters on Robinson Cruose’s island, Juan Fernandez, off the coast of Chill, and bring them in tanks to Valpariso,” be said. “There thev are 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 tiie Andes to Buenos Aires on the opposite coast. These aeroplanes run a regular service, supplying the market in Buenos Aires with lobsters. The price the people of that city give for these lobsters is six times the price for which they can be obtained in Valparaiso.” The chilling of beef, although universally adopted in the Argentine, left plenty of room for improvement, said Mr. Sanders. Beef so prepared would onlv last nine days. It 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 connection with research, which was proceeding with the object of extending the period that chilled meat would keep, and delegates attending the Refrigeration Congress kept a good deal of secret information up their sleeves.