ANTARCTIC REGIONS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 127, Issue 127, 9 July 1941, Page 5

ANTARCTIC REGIONS

COOL STORES FOR MEAT NATURAL REFRIG liR ATI ON A suggestion that New Zealand's surulus meat might be stored in Antarctic, is made in a letter to the editor of the Nelson Mail, by a reader of that paper, who declares: "My suggestion of using the ice and snow of the Antarctic may seem a bit wild and unpraclicable, but it iritay start people thinking on the subject. "Modern machinery could make huge snow houses, at very little cost into which thei frozen carcases could he deposited and kept indefinitely. A uniform temperature could be maintained if such be necessary. Europe and possibly other continents may be starving when the wrnr is over." This is indeed a thought-provok-ing suggestion, says a Wellington writer, and I do view it as; exceedingly unfortunate that there is not the shipping available to take oui meat there, nor the port facilities ; n that region for the handling of any sizeable cargoes. Thought might, however, be given as to whether o-> not such natural cold storage might be developed on the slopes of Mts. Ruapeliu, Egmont and Cook.