CHILLED BEEF

Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1933, Page 7

CHILLED BEEF

PORT FAIRE-Y CARGO

ARRIVAL IN LONDON

LONDON, 'March 14. Oil February 6, the Port *Fairc_ si led from Wellington .carrying, 1 amor other cargo, 293 hindquai'ters and 1 forequarters of chilled beef: Tile load mg opt rations had been made an o

casioin 0 f gome importance, *and th Governor-General had visited the Ccn moinvealth and Dominion eargo. sh’j Reference to the experimental c >rr

his been made on many occasions : London and provincial newspaper ■ii i its arrival in this country h beq n looked forward to with mild ii

'en.it by the general public and wit •iinch greater interest by those con ae. ted with the trade.

I'csterday, the Port F«irey- s«ile i:p th.' Thames after a perfect sum me i trip round Gape Rom,, mid flits moij ' i jg the vessel -was in dock arid mv’oat'

j.ug ■ were begun. .-At throoMock this afternoon ia sufficient qua;’ <i Ly of New Zealand lamb, had 'bet; out to uncover the se led doc ■ >(' the hold where the beef' had beer stored at a. temperature of; 23 degree; Fn.hr. throughout the voyage,..,

Vfr R..S. Forsyth. Mr Neville Wrigh | (New Zealand representative; 0 f the I Department of Scientific flftd Indus, j trial Research), and three, of', the scient | i't s from the Oambridge -Low. Temper. attire Tieseaiv-h RL-'fciori were the guestlof the directors 'repp serttqd- by Sji. .Tames Cory) and the manager (Mr \v Donald) of th e company today. After lunching 0 n board with the ; , captain and some of the officers descended to the hold to see the first of th: chilled beef taken out. M each quarter was carried into thr. open ‘experts from Messrs .Borthwick and Co. and the scientists probed and cut and took temperatures, and. s me lled ■the meat.. In tile end the manager pi the shipping company was able to telephone his office and tell them to carry on with ia luncheon party c<n‘ the ship ’to-morrow.-This means., that , the beef will go. into consumption. Mahy, of the quarters had a. certain amount of'mould on the surface, but this de. feet was less noticeable whe u 'the 'quarters further from tlm d°or .were taken out. ■' •• Tlhe . story of ' the experiment enas there for the present. Some 300 quarters wi.H, 'he, offered for gale., at, ■Sffiithfield to-morrow morning, when doubtless the superficial mould wifi be wiped, off. Not until the trade has examined end tested the meat and offered a> price for it will 'it-be possible to pronounce it verdict ras to the success or. otherwise of. the experiment.