FROZEN MEAT.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16728, 10 January 1920, Page 9

FROZEN MEAT.

to the v.nirim ok "rnr riiK.-f." Sir, —Tlio Fanner?.' Union seem to me to miss ihe point as to wliy ihe freezing companies were going to discontinue cutting; tin* can-asn m hall. The trouble at llome is that New Zealand carcases are so lightly clad in their baps, quite diaphanous when tlioy arrive, that thev are badly bruised. Argentino meat is I.nt so. as "tln-v put t lie carcases into really rtrong sheeting, and the carcases come out nice, fresh, and with no of brui-t v. Tliis is tantamount- to accusing our local companies of doing things too cheaply. The "ompanies must put our Uioat on the market in a much better state. They can afford it. as three companies inado last year 102 per cent., o(5 per cent.j 31 per cent, ou paid-up capital. _ Presumably "cutting down expenses'' was partly whv tln-v -were so prosperous. The Imperial (iovernment don't care how the moat is sent over as long as it arrives as nearly as possible as it left liere. They have storage to consider as well as wo have.—Yours, <T<\, MINT SAITK. January Sth, 1!)—0. f'Knquirios w"ero made by a representative of "Tho Press" into the hul>joot matter of this lc.ttor. Itcprcsentativos of freezinp companies hcn> repudiate the suggestion that they use cheaper or worse quality material ihan before the war. In some eases tho happing used is actually pre-war stock. No ordinary th't'KnesH of slioeting would wivo bruises. It is pointed out that Argentine moat may pot Homo •.vitliin a few werks of killing, and Vow Zealand meat usually is much nUler, ami lias to bu iwndled inoro. Tho disrontinuntuv of tho practice i>f cutting carcases hns ]>con dono <>u tho direct order of the Imperial (lovornmont. It is tnio that tho nit earoafos <lo not look so woll when thawed out as uncut, owing to the fact that the thin cut edges inevitably get knocked about and look discoloured. The companion here would as soon send rut. as uncut. carcases, bocauso it takes less material to bap a cut carcase, and as it costs nl>out Is per hap now as against 2ijd pro-war price, tho saving of material is a consideration ; nlso, a pre at deal of happing lias been cut to tho smaller size too small to Imp an impiit carcase.—Ed. "Tho Press."]

RELEASED GERMANS. TO THE EDITOR OK "THE riU»." Sir, —How refreshing to see in votir column?: lliiit M>iun patriotic colonials in the North Island nro agitating ngainstlio wholesale reloaso of our interned Germans. Nono too goon, snrolj, if there is 1o lie ;iny check put on this stupid disposal of those enemies of our Kins and country. They must lv such to havo ever been interned. lmagino any sane Government allowing ii man who was, before the war, a German Consul in New Zealand, nis reloaso and full freedom to settle on tho land here nowl "What a hot-bed of troublo wo are allowing to hatch for our enjoyment! How absurd it 16 to thinking people, no mntter of _ what political colour, to voluntarily give nil the advantages of this promising land to Germans to enjoy. "Once a Germnn, always n Gorman." Hoping somo abler mind than mine can suggest some mentis of forcing this danger, to our future generations, out of our land as speedilv as possible.—Yours, etc., . * beware.