CHILLED BEEF

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1933, Page 5

CHILLED BEEF

MORE SHIPMEETS

FROM N.Z. AND AUSTRALIA.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) LONDON, July 27. The Australian and New Zealand Press Association learns that ■Bort-h----wicks firm have arranged- for the continuation of the ’chilled beef shipments from both . Australia.; and New Zealand, in. the hope of achieving n commercial success- based '.on ithe profit made ion the Port Fairey shipment, cabled July 19. Ther e .is a problem, in the’ gas chilling mcthold. 'recently'?employed. It is to prevent the gas from- escaping, which, it - remedied by fjnoi’eaising 'the ;■'number •*bf - bulk-: ;. head s in the ship's, in .order; hermetically to seal the -meat. It us understood' that - the* specifications for tb© refrigerated < ships recently ordered for' Australian and New Zealand trade provide for this. Though mutton, arid’ lamb were receded slightly ’ from the June prices, thig is due 'largely to*' hot" weather. The" position' at ' iSmithfield remains unexpectedly good; Large quantities of mutton ®nd: lamb are'. being ..saUL,.-.-The beef, however, is worse, and th© frozen -.stocks r iof • -'beef ;- are • - nr- • -cumulating by thofisandg'-of ‘ quarters

every week. ' For the '{first time .for . Several

months, Australia 1 has seciwed the contract for ; the September delivery of three ' hundred tons of frozen beef for the Belgian. - army - at,, ,2-jd per poutnd, which' figure is ; above "the Brazilian ' quotation, but - Brazil,.'. tendering a,t 1.3-8 pence per lb, secured the October, contract-.for the (same ■ army.