CHILLED BEEF

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11827, 7 January 1933, Page 5

CHILLED BEEF

y SHIPMENT NEXT MONTH ‘-'PURELY EXPERIMENTAL.”

(Press Association.'!

MASTER-TON, Jan. 6. The Port Fairy, leaving Wellington on February 3, is to take as part of her cargo an experimental shipment of chilled beef, consigned by Messrs. T. Borthwick and Sons. The beef will be drawn entirely from the Wairarapa district. A start will 10 made with the killing at Waingawa, towards the end of ths month. The shipment, which is purely experimental, will be the first • rom the Wairarapa and the second from the Dominion since the war _ ■\ representative of Borthwicks said that, though there were difficulties in connection with such a shipment, it was felt that these could lie overcome. They were using the experience gained when a s of chilled beef was sent to England from the firm’s Moreton works, at Brisbane about three months ag That shipment had proved satisfac10Hie present shipment will consist of hindquarters only and the whole process, from killing to chi mg, \ be carried out at Waingawa. rarapa, it was stated, was one o best parts of New Zealand m which to conduct such an experiment as the type of beef here was particuln y g ln order to build the trade, _it was added, monthly shipments would be necessary. The Port Fairy «> being specially fitted for the carriage of chilled beef.