COLD STORAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 October 1922, Page 4

COLD STORAGE.

A PROMISING- FIELD. TRADE WITHIN EMPIRE. By Telegraph.—Pros* Asan. —Copyrtflit. London, October 18. Sir Joseph Cook and Sir James Allen were the principal guesta at the autumn dinner of the British Cold Storage and Ice Association. . Sir Joseph Cook, responding to the toajjt of Empire refrigerated commerce, said refrigeration had a vital relationship to Empire development. There was better business obtainable within the Empire than anywhere outside. The Dominions spent ten times as much in the Old Country ns anv foreigner. Instead of taking meat from Argentina, butter from Denmark and apples from the United States, he appealed to English consumers to obtain such products within the Empire. Sir James Allen, proposing the toaat of the cold storage and ice industry, referred to the miraculous development of the industry, which had now reached an interesting stage in which the producers were compelled to bend their energies to the production of meat and fruit transportable by cold storage overseas, so as to arrive in a condition acceptable to the English consumer. He paid tribute to the services rendered to cold storage by scientific investigators; he knew of no field of investigation offering greater promise.