INSULATED SPACE
detection of defects SECRET RESEARCH WORK (From Our Resident Reporter) WELLINGTON. To-dav Constantly this season oversea liners leaving Dominion ports for the United Kingdom will carry thermo graphs in their insulated space All ,hi uu S h the voyage these instruments will be at work recording the variations of temperature in the various holds and on arrival in the Mother Country selected cases of New Zealand produce will be rushed to the Cambridge Low Temperature .Research station, where the famous Dr. Kidd will superintend the study of the condition in which they arrive. By this means defects in existing insulated space will be exposed, but the conclusions of the Research Station will remain sercet. this being one of the conditions in which the shipping companies and the Department ot Scinetlflc and Industrial Research commenced the work
Fruit and cheese, of New Zealand’s products, are now receiving attention, and it is expected that the study will continue for four years. Already one report from Dr. Kidd has reached Nevv Zealand, and has been communicated to the shipping companies, and information gathered through the experiments will be applied in the construction of fresh refrigerated space in vessels building for the New Zealand trade.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 594, 21 February 1929, Page 13
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203INSULATED SPACE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 594, 21 February 1929, Page 13
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