REFRIGERATION

Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1934, Page 2

REFRIGERATION

FIFTY YEAiRS GROWTH

LONDON, December 1. Mr R. ;S. Forsyth, C-M.G., representative in the United Kingdom of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, who is this year president of the British Association of Refrigeration, delivered his presidential address at the opening meeting for the season Mr Forsyth spoke of the wonderful development of refrigeration during the last 50 years. Foj* the calendar year, 1933, he said, the imports of food into the United Kingdom, which would n'ot have been possible without refrigeration, reached the colossal total of 2,500,000 tons, .representing a value of over £87,000,000. This food consisted principally of meat, dairy produce, fruit, eggs and fish. A study of these figures made one realise the great dependaiiee of Groat Britain upon refrigeration for a large

proportion of i.ts daily food. *'T venture to Think,” added M 1 ’ Forsyth, “that very few of the public of this country realise how really d c_ pendent they are upon refrigeration for an adequate and reasonably-priced food supply. As the great hulk of the ■refrigerated steamers of the world are British-owned, the huge volume of refrigerated produce i« carried by British steamers manned by British s a U tl rs. fn these days of severe foreign competition in shipping it is satisfactory to know that the British shipowner i, s supreme in this sphere, vWe must also not iovci*look the great amount of capital and labour employed in 'Great Britain in the storage, and internal transport of these .refrigerated imports.