IN THE ARGENTINE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21828, 15 December 1932, Page 9

IN THE ARGENTINE

USES MADE OF DRY ICE AN INTERESTING EXAMPLE (Special to Daily Txji.es.) AUCKLAND, December 14. The uses made of dry ice for goods in transit in the Argentine greatly impressed Mr Robert Sanders, of Auckland, who has returned from a visit to South America, where he acted as New Zealand representative ex officio at the Sixth International Congress of Refrigeration at Buenos Aires. An interesting example quoted by Mr Sanders was the carriage of lobsters across the South American continent by aeroplane. “ They catch the lobsters on Robinson Crusoe’s Island, Juan Fernandez, oft the coast of Chili, aiid bring them in tanks to 'Valparaiso,” he said. “There they fire packed into an aeroplane insulated with dry ice, which is from eight to 10 times colder than ordinary ice, and are conveyed by air across the Andes to Buenos Aires, on the opposite coast. These aeroplanes run a regular service, supplying the market in Buenos Aires with lobsters, and the price the people of that city give for these lobsters is six times the price for which they can be obtained in Valparaiso.” , The chilling of beef, although universally adopted in the . Argentine, loft plenty of room for improvement, said Mr Sanders. Beef so prepared would last only nine days. It could, not be refrozen, and in the event of the British market being glutted the meat had to be disposed of at any price buyers liked to name. Great rivalry prevailed in connection with research, which was proceeding with the object of extending the period that chilled beef would keep, gind the, delegates attending the refrigeration congress kept a good deal of secret information up their sleeves.