THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 297, 25 May 1915, Page 8

THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

BI.G FUTURE FORECASTED. TilE TARAN'AKI FARMERS' MEAT CO. Writes Mr. W. It. 'Wright (Rakotu), under yesterday's date:—Sir, —Perhaps some few people who are hesitating about supporting this company, which was launched ■on Friday, may pluck up courage on reading the following forecast of freezing prospects by one of the largest meat linns at Home, and I may say they (Weddell ariil Co.) are now erecting two freezing works in Australia and another in Argentina, and that a New Zealand firm are the architects. B

(Enclosure). In the course of a lecture delivered by Mr. -George Kooker, director of W. Weddell and <.'o. Ltd., London (frozen meat importers), before the students of the City of.'London College on 'February 1 the following references to the future of the frozen meat trade were made and will be read with interest by our stocKowners:

"I 'have not the slightest hesitation in saying 'that despite all their present magnitude and their cosmopolitan character the industries founded upon refrigeration or fostered by it are only passing through their apprenticeship. The future holds possibilities far in advance of our past experiences. For example, us an important factor in the food supply of animals in time of war, frozen meat has proved itself to be of inestimable value during the past six months, and will doubtless take a permanent position in future in national plans, not only for the provisioning of troops, but also for the protection of the whole people against starvation in times of war.

"When the result of the fighting in Europe begin to bo felt at the close of Iho war, and the inevitable scarcity of food is discovered, what is going to happen? 'Undoubtedly many of the Continental countries will be'compelled to draw upon extra European sources, to make good the shortage caused by over-slaughtering for the purposes of war. 'No one can doubt for a moment that after the war is over there are going to bo some tremendous changes in connection with business of all kinds; and not the least of these changes will he in connection with the importation of external supplies of food into these devastated countries, in order to supplement their reduced local supplies. "Croat, therefore, as lias been the demand hitherto for frozen meat and for other refrigerated articles of produce, there van be little doubt that the future is going to witness a further expansion of industries which, in all their departments, are as yet far from being fully developed. ''To those of you who are still young and, it may be, uncertain as to how to shape your business careers, I would say emphatically that you cannot possibly hope to find greater or more profitable scope for your energies and abilities . than by preparing yourselves to occupy positions in one or other of the numerous expanding and world-wide industries which are being built up around the phenomena of cold, artificially produced, and practically applied. "Perhaps the. authorities of the City of London College, having now made a beginning with the study of refrigeration, may see their way to provide facilities for the more extended study of the I subject in all its branches. When one thinks of the industries directly associated with refrigeration, e.g., stock-rais-ing, dairying, fruit-growing, engineering, chemistry, veterinary science, shipbuilding, shipowning, storage, distribution, insurance, etc.. and all of them requiring special knowledge, one wonders that there is not already in tin's country a School of Refrigeration^'