FROZEN MEAT AT HOME.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13648, 13 February 1913, Page 8

FROZEN MEAT AT HOME.

The- methods adopted in handling *«r Zealand meat at Home were referral t» by Mr. D. Hawk, of OsforcL who has jirtt returned from a trip to the-Old Country, when mterviewed hj a Oirktchwrch '"Press" reporter. Mi H*wke -aid that die found the> system of-handling moat adopted at the docks 'Is not satisfactory. Tho accommodation, ho said, «« rxab » B°«l ac it imuhb be, and, in transferring the meat * from the steamer to tho sheds and then to tho railway trucks, it was exposed to tho dust and dirt of the aunoundings. Complaints had been made «* tho dirb on the barge* on winch the 1 xneat was convoyed, hut he did not think, this complaint was jistined. i Mr Hawk©, wont on to say that another serious trouble was that in transv ferring the meat from the. holds of the steamer to the «h«ds it was .common for f legs «id shoulders to ho broken and knocW about, so that when the meat rowhed the market it did not look veil He understood the authontiee at Home contemplated building now docks and erecting freezing chambers on tho docks, so that the meat could be removed direct from the steamers to the freezing chambers, and so reach the market in perfect condition, "If this iB-dono there will be nothing to complain of," concluded Mr Hawk.