STORAGE OF FOODSTUFFS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22257, 9 May 1934, Page 4

STORAGE OF FOODSTUFFS

TRANSPORT PROBLEMS A PERSONAL INVESTIGATION (Per United Press Association.) PALMERSTON N, May 8. Mr J. C. Neill, field mycologist attached to the plant research station at Massey College, sailed in the Trojan Star from Auckland yesterday, accompanying a shipment of gas-chilled beef for the purpose of continuing the study of the effect and formation of moulds on carcasses. He will also investigate the condition of New Zealand meat, butter, cheese, and fruit on its arrival Home. This undertaking follows several years of close investigation into factors affecting their condition at this end. Mr Neill supervised the first shipmont of chilbd beef from the Dominion in August of last year. His trip is being carried out in conjunction with the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and the Cambridge low temperature station (England). Investigations into wastages in shipments of fruit have been proceeding for five or six years at Palmerston North and a point has been reached at which it is not possible to proceed further at this end. Mr Neill will examine the fruit on its arrival Home to determine what species of fungus is, responsible for the trouble. He will represent the New Zealand Government at the third Imperial Mycological Conference in September. He intends to investigate the growing of swede turnip seed and also peas and beans in England and on the Continent, the object being to develop lines that will be free from disease.