CHILLED BEEF SHIPMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 29 September 1933, Page 5

CHILLED BEEF SHIPMENTS

USE OF GAS PROCESS. RIVER PLATE CONSIGNMENT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) LONDON, Sept 28. Presumably owing to the success of the Australian shipment of chilled beef in gas, a- South American firm consigned a quantity from River Plate. Til oil gh it was carried at the remarkably high temperature of 30} degrees Fahrenheit the meat arrived in London in condition equivalent to ordinary chilled consignments. The last Australian consignment was carried at 29} degrees, compared with the ordinary chilled temperature of 28}, thus raising the temperature of chilled bee/, which is arriving from overseas virtually fresh. Commenting on this aspect, the Commonwealth veterinary representative (Mr. R. LI. Hevwood) says it is unnecessary for Australia to be alarmed at the prospect of South America depriving Australia of the prospective benefit of the new method of chilling, because laboratory experiments have shown the temperature at which the first South American gas chilled shipment was carried is equally suitable from Australia; probably shipping is possible at an even higher temperature.