COLD STORAGE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17116, 23 November 1929, Page 4

COLD STORAGE

RESEARCH IN NEW ZEALAND The investigations carried out on the consignments of apples and pears sent forward last season to the Cambridge Low Temperature Research Station have now been completed, and a. report lias been transmitted to Now Zealand, according to a report furnished to the Minister of Scientific and Agricultural Research, the Hon. 1L AI more, by the chairman of the council, Mr. G. Shirteliffe. ■Preliminary arrangements have been made for further investigation during the coining season, and the whole of the plans will be discussed with Messrs. Griffiths, Vickery, and Haddow, of the Low Temperature Research Station, Cambridge, who have now arrived in Now Zealand. . These officers will be engaged upon investigations connected with the transport of meat, and Will work in association with the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board. Altogether they will spend some months in New Zealand, and will In: able thereby to follow the course of tlie lamb and mutton right from the farm to the retail shops in Great Britain.

ft is anticipated that the investigation will help in the elucidation of the loss occasioned through lack of “bloom” which lack at times detracts from the value of Now Zealand meat when sold overseas.

Experiments dealing with the behavior of cheese in transport and storage have ■been commenced, a consignment of cheeses specially prepared at the Dairy Institute having been shipped, accompanied by thermographs, to the, British Dairy Research Institute at Reading. This investigation is designed mainly to provide information relative to the bacteria concerned in maturing of cheese, and the open-texture defect from which New Zealand.chcc.se apparently suffers.