CHILLED BEEF

Wairarapa Daily Times, 17 March 1933, Page 3

CHILLED BEEF

MEAT BOARD’S RESEARCH. lu commenting on the research activities of the Meat Producers' Boaird at a meeting o-f the Wairarapa Provincial Executive of tiio Farmers' Union, SinWilliam Perry said that the Meat Board had done a good deal more than guarantee half the amount of any loss on the shipment of chilled beef. The board had arranged with the Railways Board to secure the. right sort of trucks to take the meat to Wellington. The question of the class of meat that was to go was also looked into. The meat sent Home -was some of the best that the Wairarapa could produce and every care was taken. Messrs. Borthwick deserved great credit for the way in which they had handled the whole job. They were most particular that there should not be a bruise of any' sort oil any one quarter. The beef was right up to the best the Wairarapa could produce. There had been a little difficulty- dn getting the meat on board ship, but some of the officials from the works here put on overalls and loaded the meat when the men in Wellington would not go on. The ship had made a fast passage and he had received information that the beef had arrived in good order. Mr 11. Morrison: "Just as good as the Australian and that was very good.” Sir W. Perry agreed that the Australian experiment had been successful. New Zealand had some advantages over Australia in the export of chilled beef. Our climate was not so hot and our railage distances were shorter. The experiment no doubt would open up a. npw field for beef in New Zealand. The beef sent- Home on this occasion was going on to a market that was l very weak at the moment, but it rvas not a question of what the beef fetched to-day. The bigger point was' that the shipment had been carried successfully- to the Old Country. What remained now was for farmers to take the matter up 'and produce first-class young beef for the future. The question of carton beef and quick freezing had also been before the Meat Board. A man had been out here advocating it very- strongly. When the Meat Board chairman (Mr D. Jones) was at the Ottawa Conference he went'a long way out of his way to see what was being done. He visited a plant where a quick-frezing machine was working in, a field, putting Up green peas. There were many possibilities in this quick freezing. The Meat Board had been going into it very tboroughly, but had not yet reached finality.