DEHYDRATED FOOD

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5596, 24 March 1943, Page 6

DEHYDRATED FOOD

INVESTIGATION IN AMERICA An announcement that the Auckland manager of the Internal Marketing Division, Mr A. H. Honeyfield, was now in America as a Government representative investigating the development of the dehydration of vegetables, manufacture of sauerkraut, and concentration of fruit juices was made on Saturday by the Minister of Marketing, Mr Barclay. Mr Honeyfield will also inspect the latest methods adopted in America for the cool storage of foodstuffs, particularly by the quick-freeze method, and, if time permits, he will survey the Californian lemon industry and the possibility of increased utilisation of kauri gum.

“With the rapid expansion of New Zealand’s food commitments in the Pacific area,” said Mr Barclay, “it became essential to send a representative overseas, to investigate all these matters, and if possible to arrange, with the assistance of the United States Joint Purchasing Board in New Zealand, the release of whatever equipment can be made available, so that New Zealand can maintain adequate supplies of foodstuffs for civilian requirements and at the same time make increasing quantities available for the requirements of the Armed Forces, particularly in the form most suitable for the Pacific area.”