MEAT FOR UNITED STATES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 51, 28 August 1913, Page 2

MEAT FOR UNITED STATES

OFFICIAL ENQUIRIES BEING MADE. [BY TELEGRAPH— SPECIAL TO THE POST.] AUCKLAND, TWb Day. ( The prospective removal of the tariff bar which has been maintained by the United States against meat products has led the Department of Agriculture in the United States to arrange for official enquiries in various countries' from which frozen and chilled meats will be shipped to the United States. The Ptire Foods Act of the United States is generally regarded as the most scrupulous in the world, and the enquiries which are now being instituted probably have some relation to the requirements of this law. Intimation was received by the Consul-General at Auckland last month that Dr. A. D. Melvine, Chief of the Bureau' of Animal Industry, a division of the Department of Agriculture, would visit Australia and New Zealand to make an inspection of the frozen meat industry, but subsequent cables indicated that Dr. Melvine had gone instead to the Argentine. In his place Dr. E. C. Joss, of Portland, Oregon, an officer of the Bureau of Chemistry, another division of the Department, has been instructed to investigate the meat industry of Australasia. He arrived at Auckland by the Makura, and proceeded to Sydney by the same vessel. Dr. Joss will return to New Zealand towards the end of October, and will commence his tour of the Dominion probably at Wellington.