Carrying Chilled Meat by Railway.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 4 March 1890, Page 2

Carrying Chilled Meat by Railway.

. , ; *—— — - The Sydney Morning Iler&itUay* : ~ The efficacy of Mr Robert Hudson's } arrangements for the eonveyaneV 8 of chilled Meat by rail has beoa&ub , jecte-i to a practical test with coin- , plete success, The MU carcase* of ] o* mutton that wer* placed in the , relating car at Narander* on. a ; Fiiday morning, were brought down j by Jtb,e goods express and reaohea Bydpty some thirty hours afterwards perfectly-dry, and (as the exports '.*ho were present St the time declared) ftr prime conditi«o. B«t the, appearance of th* meat was not th c only success of the experiment., Spir le of it cooted on the following Mom,day provei'tp be >th torieifc^ o* conductof ":#?s' trying cohaitionß, !«^ tb:at the butchering and dressifl B were not done iv the best way. Tbe m< iat was Hot chilled More being pdyeediin th# truck, as it pro&afcfy v 01 1"* s*ie been had the general* arrangement* been perfected, The te^pea-ature within tp^sh#i it feW a ?f w,as >V»Ct 70" ■■flogre'ea: T3ie presumption is tfiat 1 itiroul4 ; "h»ye beeA reduced before loading in the regular course ofbusiiess'; Kotwi thstauding tKe heaHs «f the weather;"ho <WBter-, the thenadmeter-stiroa at J 42i|ftg^»yil^a I the truck wheri it ww #*^ a^ r the 850 miles journey* 9«» w tfc«r« - fore, as Qoncfrna .tho^ffifeotiTf^Wi. -«f ., the' syjsej», ttwy* is kbumdaT^ reasoQ to.btfsati.a^ed^ "V^hjat was, proposed to b^doae hits been don c, and can be done with'ceriainty. Kis to b« hoped, therefore, that tht'O^er conditipns! v/hich are necesaaiT to wit commercial success of &9 enterprise wUt^sb'V fulfilled when it is <sar T rie^'6ut;Upona j^inin«B9 baais. ...The, idea_of ijUing animals in th> neigh-: bot\rhQ^i of the pasbures and co tvey. ing the meat to Sydney by rail is far . from b^ng a new »na ;but ior 0&* reason or, another previoa* attempts to give effect to it have Mled- The lat e Mr Thomas Mort flrxpen,d'3?l,r a larj^Bjiura of money in erecHag s'auihter yards, and. providing other appliances near Lithgo^' ; bu,t his pubjiaapirued effort* dtd no'i. ootn*mand suofess. Circumstancea have altered since %m. , The Teqntre. me.n.ts of.th.c business- ai^t. tettet; understood.. There is reason to sup* pose th'^i^r. Hudson's refrigerating car is superior ip its . predecessors. The public nii»d. is prcrfmbly ' better prepared tbanlt was 10 ywars ago to appreciate the design tct its, true value, . It is tp be hoped,, therefor* that tlie' 'mod«s^ ,experi»B| «nt .: made last week mayjDOJnt the •yf.ay to, results o^tn^iwae and fnipdrtfcnoe.