COLD STORAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 January 1919, Page 5

COLD STORAGE.

WHAT WAS BJSINCt PfiOVLDEDk Becaived Jan. 23, 12.5 a.m. ' London, Jan. 20. v Brickwell, director of the cold storage department of the Ministry of Food, states that a very large quantity—/almost a glut—of Australian meat will •be available within a few months. The ■weekly supply will continue auifcicntly huge to uieet all needs. It will not ha necessary to continue rationing. During the war the cold storage increased to 190,000 tons. By October there will be a culbic foot of cold storage for every man, woman, and child in the United Kingdom. The structures cost thus far ov«r three mißions. If the war had continued they would have provided still more. This was now unnecessary.

Most of the cold stores are at the seaports, and London has sixteen million cubic feet out of a total of thirty-nine million, Liverpool, Manchester, and Bristol are next. There are aleo smaller stores dotted cbout the Midlands, but there are few in the north of England and Scotland, because tho couaumors object to frozen meat. The cold storage department intends to relax control as quickly aa possible and leave the development to private enterprise.—Aua. &Z. Cable Assoc.