AUSTRALIA'S BEEF TRADE.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16750, 17 March 1926, Page 7

AUSTRALIA'S BEEF TRADE.

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GLOOMY PROSPECTS. PUSHED OUT BY ARGENTINE. AN EXPERT'S VIEWS. (Australian and N Z. Cable Assn.) (Received March 17, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 16. Dr. T. Moran, refrigerating expert, lecturing before the British Cold Storage Association, declared that with the growth of the chilled meat trade, frozen meat was being gradually pushed out of the English market. It was clear that unless a better refrigerated product could be sent the future of the Australian beef trade in Britain was gloomy. The needed improvement could only bo achieved cither by prolonging the life of the chilled cai'c\sc or discovering some freezing and thawing process which would leave the muscle substances unaltered, and secure the total elimination of drip. ANOTHER DEVELOPMENT. FRESH-KILLED MEAT. FIRST CONSIGNMENT IN LONDON. (Sydney Sun Cable, i (Received March 17, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, March 16. The first consignment of fresh Argentine beef, killed at the Englishowned abattoirs at Zccbrugge, is being sold in London within a day of killing Previously, owing to the prohibition against the landing of live Argentine cattle, this beef was only available in chilled form. It is now marketable as quickly as Scottish killed and is not expected to affect prices before it is tried on a large scale. The meat will be loaded on special rail cars, and conveyed by tram to Harwich.