VACUUM PACKING

Evening Star, Issue 21878, 15 November 1934, Page 9

VACUUM PACKING

SUCCESS DF NEW PROCESS NEW ZEALAND LEADS THE WAY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 14. (Received November 15, at 10.10 a.m.) Sir Francis Price presided at a luncheon attended by Sir James Parr, Sir Thomas Wilford, and the Australian Agents-General to hear the progress of vacuum packing in New Zealand. The Chairman pointed out that vacuum packed butter and cheese from three packing factories in New Zealand commanded in London an additional 10s per hundred-weight for butter and 20s for cheese over the refrigerated product, giving an extra profit to the farmer even after paying the extra cost of the new packing, also giving extra employment to Britain in making containers.

Sir Janies Parr, in pointing out that New Zealand sent more butter to Bn tain than any other country, said his Government sympathetically viewed the new venture, especially as it tended to improve the quality and the price obtained for their products.

Other speakers emphasised that vacuum packed produce had already been sent over the Equator in unrefrigerated ships. The process was applicable to meat and many other commodities. Scientific experiments showed that goods thus packed retained their flavour and the vitamins, and that the keeping qualities y were even better than refrigerated articles. It was intended ultimately to operate in every part of the Empire in sending foodstuffs to Britain.