CHILLED MEAT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 75, 10 March 1933, Page 11

CHILLED MEAT

QUEENSLAND TESTS. VERY NEARLY SUCCESSFUL. Experiments at the Brisbane abattoir* continue in the matter of keeping chilled meat sufficiently long for the voyage to England. The process is very interesting, glass doors being provided so that the condition of meat may be inspected from day to day. A lot of meat was opened up lately after eight weeks in the (hilling chamber, and the process was described as very nearly successful, there being only some slight mould. As the experiments are continued there is an increasing hope of a complete solution of the problem for a voyage to Britain via Torres Strait, but there has been an extension of the fear that with a meat council established southern influence may be against the shorter run. No more has been heard of the proposed United States subsidised line of steamers to the and to Europe, but it may be said quite safely that if it comes it will be assured not om of meat and butter freights, but of a considerable run of general cargo. Queensland shippers hold that by the Torres Strait route it will be possible to land meat in England 10 days earlier than by way of southern ports and Fremantle. Quite possibly there may lie a request for some assurance on the subject of routes before Queensland seeks representation on a meat council.