OUR FROZEN MEAT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1671, 11 February 1913, Page 10

OUR FROZEN MEAT.

handling.methods criticised, • _Tho methods adopted in handling Now ; Zealand meat, at Homo were referred to oy Mr. I). Hawk, of Oxford, who has just' Teturned from a. trip to tho Old Country, , when .intorjriwed/'by. a Chrfstchurch /'Press" reporter. Mr. Hawk said that . lio found the system\of handling meat .ad°pfced at the docks was not satisfactory. The accommodation, lie said, was not aa good as it might be, and,' in transferring tho moat: from the steamer to tho sheds and tlion to the railway trucks, it was exposed to the dnst and dirt of tho surroundings. Complaints had been made of the.dirt on tho barges "on which the meat was , conveyed, but lie diil not think this complaint was justified. -Mr. Hawk went on to say' that another serioii9 troublo was that in transferring the meat frdriv the holds of the steamer to the sheds ■ it was common for legs and shoulders to •be broken and/knocked about, so -that - when/tho meat reached the market ( it did not look vrell. Ho understood the authori- • ties at "Home contemplated building, new (looks and erecting freezing'chambers on "/■tho..docks, so tliiit tho meat could .be remored direct, from the steamers 'to tho freezing chambers rind so reach the markot -in perfect" condition. "If this is done thero will be nothing to complain' Of," concluded Mr. Hawk. .