CHILLED BEEF.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19012, 1 August 1933, Page 10

CHILLED BEEF.

EXPERIMENTAL CARGOES. BCOPE FOR DEVELOPMENT. (Special to Times).. WELLINGTON, Monday. The board has also made considerable Investigations in the United States of America and elsewhere in connection with the development and possibilities of the quick-freezing of meat, states the annual report of the New Zealand Meat Producers Board. During the year the board cooperated with a firm in connection with two shipments of chilled beef, and it Is hoped that as a result of these trial shipments It will he shown that chilled beef from this Dominion can be landed in the United Kingdom in a satisfactory condition. The chief difficulty in the transport of chilled beef is the deterioration due to the action of moulds, and in the shipments above referred to every care and attention has been given to this question, alike at the freezing-works, in the railway wagons and in the chamber of the carrying vessel. Should these experimental shipments demonstrate that we oan land chilled beef in the United Kingdom in a satisfactory 'condition, and at a payable price, It is obvious that if we are to develop a trade we must concentrate on the right type of cattle, and be assured of a continuity of supply. At the present time our beef production may he looked upon as a by-pro- , duct to our sheep and lamb export trade, in the sense that a great many of our cattle are grazed in the North Island mainly for the purpose of keeping the country in good order for sheep and lambs, and if a trade in the export of chilled beef could be developed it would place our beef industry on a more stable basis and encourage the cattle-men of the Dominion to improve the quality of their beef.