CHILLED BEEF

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 127, 2 June 1927, Page 11

CHILLED BEEF

AUSTRALIAN TRJAL SHIPMENTS

'Evening Post," 2nd June.

No one who has once seen and compared in Sinithfifild the Argentine chilled beef with beef that has been brought frozen from the Antipodes is in doubt about the superiority of the South American article; besides the premium paid fop chilled over frozen tells its own story. New Zealand beef, a fast shrinking article of. export, would probably show up much, more attractively on. arrival if chilled and command prices that would encourage graslers to greatly improve its quality-. Export of chilled beef from New Zealand is not to be dismissed as unthinkable. Mr. C. H. Eayeon, director of the Perfect *ood Process Proprietary, Melbourne, returns from London convinced that the meat trade in England is. now satisfied that the "distance" problem of Australia s meat industry has been definitely overcome. The consignment of chilled t t y tie Bteamer p °rt Hardy, despite the fact that the voyage was a protract- | d one of 62 days, was sold in the Smithheld Market in London at prices which compared very- favourably with the product of the Argentine. Mr. Eayson added that three successive shipments of chilled beet dispatched by the company had proved, as the shipment by the. Port Hardy St'j * witll a VOVaSe of approximately 50 days such beef may be carried from any port in Australia. The chilled beef had been sold within two days of reaching the London market. The company intended to arrange for the dispatch' of lurtlier similar shipments to England. Mr. ■Kayson found that there was a very strong opinion in England that unless something dehmte and practical was done immediately m a united effort to lift the beef industry out of its present state, Australia would soon cease to exist as a competitor m<,^ e meat markets of the world. We have the only big beef producing country in the world free from foot and mouth disease," said Mr. Kayson, "and ™<M *b« factor in Australia's favour; Most other beef countries, including Argentina, are, as v well known, b*% affected with the disease. The potential wealth of Australia's production of beef is enormous when one views the millions or acres of beef-produciny country already opened up and awaiting further aevelopment, and when one remembers the enormous market to be supplied. Thw matter affects the prosperity of Australia, opening up as rt does a field for migration and greater employment in a primary indus-