LONDON'S ICE.

Manawatu Herald, 27 August 1889, Page 4

LONDON'S ICE.

«, A Home paper gives some intereslinj particulars as to the supply of ico to th< London markets. It appears that it al comes from Norway. It is cut from th< lakes along the coast, stored in huge ice houses to the extent of as much ai 200,000 ton* annually, and put fron them into the ships. T>-e ice is cut int< blocks from 27in 'o 34in square, sm< weighing from 31-wi to as much as . r >ci\ each block. It is *awei! from tlie lakt-'i great ice sheet with a taw like the old fashioned pit saw, only, needles* to say there i< no man in the pit under the ice An average caruo of an ices Lip is abou 400 tony. The price r;iries with <h demand and supply. Ir has been a much as £1 2s 6H a ton in Norway, an it baa been m>!<) at tlv latter part of th season at a t>hillin<r. One firm has thre lav«c wells at Hackney for Rtoring th ice. The (arm st is *.i . 40 > deep un pe'liap" HOfi Miuurc If wjilN are 4ft v thickness, im pervious o tne sun' brat. The holding capacity of thi groat tank or well is 2000 t» n <. and th ice owe in it has been kfpt intact, wit hardly any waste, r o • ft L - years, nn on or.c occ sion tor >e*<n ytars. Th gTPJit bocks an." \v\ (Viwn by a derricl and^'afked clo-n to:3'l)pr, l.iing pn tected from cou'act with th- wall b la}erf ot Bawduvt, p^c'ki'«jt> o sirav and (Ovi rings of sailcWb. It i» est ma'ed that the ronfiira;ition of ice i London in the hot wcithir sometimj reaclus as ranch ■■■* a thousand tons day. s i'l thp En!»h.sh consumptio mu i -t >c small as compared with ibafc i theUnirtd St-'tc, wheie it is Jooke uftpn aa a household Deces?ity,