FROZEN MEAT.
AN IMPORTANT EXPERIMENT. By, telegraph, Press Ass’n, Cooyrig' Received 1.5 a.m., Feb. 21. Melbourne, Feb. 21.
Experiments were made with a tell tale thermometer in the case of frozen produoe on the last voyage of the Buevic. When plaoed in the hold it registered 29 degrees The track of the needle there, after showed a gradual fall. At the end of the first week it registered 18 degrees, at the end of the ssoond 13, at the middle of the third it bore a straight line along 12 degrees. The line made by the needle showed little or no vibration. The engineer’s logbook recorded 10 to 11 degrees after about the first week from Melbourne, and as the thermograph was plaoed in the warmest part of the hold the result of the trial is considered satisfactory.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1680, 22 February 1906, Page 2
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