New Zealand Frozen Meat aud Storage Company's Waitara works.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 11, 11 June 1885, Page 2

New Zealand Frozen Meat aud Storage Company's Waitara works.

Saturday's Taranaki News had the following : — Yesterday the refrigerator, m connection with the freezing worl 8, w a .started m the presence of Mr Banks and tfio m uiaging directors, and others. The result was all that could be desired. The machine is ono -of Haslatn's dry air refrigerators, with a capacity of 46,000 cubic feet, and is capable of discharging that amount of air every hour at a temperature of 70 degrees below, zero. The application of the machine to the particular purpose for which it is intended at W.iitara, is the first of its kind m New Zealand, that of keeping beef and" carcases ,of sheep for any length of t'xai without undergoing any c.Vwge. Tim* it will be seen will be avoidol all the expenses hitherto incurred of keeping tha an"m>ils until absolutely required for pro serving, whilst another aA uitage claimed for the new process U tliat the anima 1 will bte killed when m tlu bort condition for food. Tliere will, m short, be a proporly regulated supply of the best article. The machine . nsed for accdrnplfeliing" these desirable results is a beautii 1 1 piece of workinansliip, and is exceedingij economical, the consumption of coallor 24 hours being only 2£ tons. The principle is that air compressed and then expanded, cold, as a natural cbhseqnence, is produced. Yesterday's trial proved very satisfactory. After 2^ hours the.chambers shewed a temperature of 10 degrees below freezing point. Killing will be commenced to-day, and m a few days more all departments will be m full working order.