AUSTRALIAN CHILLED BEEF

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN CHILLED BEEF

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.'..'. (FKOa.OUB OWN CORRKSPONDENT.) "' ..- ■ -:'. : .v J : -LONBON-r^th- July.--Afc.the annual meeting of -the- Australian Estates and Mortgage Company th« chairman (Air.-Andrew Williamson) made £ome reference, to.the qiiestionof chilled versus, .frozen,.beef;,, ;:.',Xhe<.benefit .of.,the chulmg against .Ireexing,!' he said,- quoting from" a high authority, - '-"is" that the. natural .'bloom onrthe'^meait „-is^.pre??E?Ba.' ,and the ; ,uoccssjty,/for;, defrosting is. avoided. Defrostingi unless very.-prop-erly earned .out, leaves', the meat 'with a very wet arid sodden appearance, and it .is one of the difficulties we have to lace compared -with' chilled meat, which can be run direct to the.retail butchers' sliops and served" immediately without any further; ; troatm6iit.J':.:C,::,-.., : - It looked as if some misunderstanding outgeneral .prejudice^ 7said : Williamsqn. #ere,blocking, ;the,way,l<> the.grant? ing. of permission for the importation intdthis country; of-Australian beef-chilled by, the 'JLinley"- process, which)ha understood^ hadj.begnj thoroughly, ; ;tested and cordially approved'by lugtimedical .authorities.r.in^England and? in-, Australia. This process;,,was;proved^6n.. ; a practical, commercial scale by a c - number: of shipr ments before ,the-,-wor,» which were.rnK>3t satisfactory, -the meat,having, been' sold in .'first-class condition.;,on the London markets up to as; much as ninety one days from the,time of killing. ..Mere, general prejudice should not,be allowed-.to continue an.embargo.; on: what, would; be so-great. -^ :,-benefit *to so■:important an industry..,,/- ■/,- .-.-.•.■;,•■, . ■■/ .;-.-.,...,,.■;.. J(; ..''IJ ;Vy°ul4 be-a. calamity to.;our^.whole Empire,"; the- chairman, commented,?;'-.'if the -Australian frozen beef industry-were to be extinguished or evert seriously cripplied. It p would be a natipnal/danger for this-country to.be.dependent on foreign sources, of supply.. in .time ,-.o! .war.". It 1' is most regrettable that the Bridgman. repbrt-has apparently so little c9nsiderationv.fr.om.,sthenHome' .GovernT ment. I.amjhop^ful.jthat..in .the near future Australia n will be,-pble:tO'Send' us, regular,supplies r o£\beef, chilled by ; ,a special process; .and : .negotiations^ with, thg Home Government regarding; this are ;at present in'progress." ~ .--.-. „,,',,-,.