THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2080, 28 August 1885, Page 2

THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

. The N.Z. Herald LoncWjorrespondent j ■on"June 18 wrote:—l feef justified in ■■■ saying that a new era has arrived in the ■ frozen .meat trade, in consequence of the I admitted success which has attended the : ■ experience of Mr John Chambers ii] his : new system, for cooling air for the ' preservation of meat. It is now three I years since letters patent were.issued to j ■ Mr Chambers, runholder, of Te Mate,' j Napier, New Zealand, for "iinproy&V meats in refrigerating and freezing, an; in apparatus employed for such > but it is only now that the requisite apparatus and .ii)acl)in.eiy have boon sq ' perfected, aq to prove that a system ha§ ' ■ really been brought into qperatipn whicj) - I can produce (he desired result by a far less ' /■■' expensive process than those of Haslam, / Bell-Coleman and others, It is nut my in : r tention to enter on the technical details of j Mr Chambers' invention, but I may briefly | state that it is tjie adaptation of t!)e anj- ! inonia process to the produptjon of qqk} ■ air, a process which has, of course, long | enough been in operation for the produc- \. tion of ice.' That'theuse of volatile liquid? for the production of cold iq iijqre ec'cnougH mical than that of air or aether prqcgfflffi lias been long known, butflfiias served for Mr Chambers to overcowHHH mechanical difficulties which hitherto regarded as iusurniuuntablolHH their application to the production of air, and it is to be borne in mind that the apparatus is not a maphine fop j! producing refrigerating effeqt,^' but m i for merely applying the affect produiM J j by ammonia or other volatile ]j|o| to tile cooling and drying of air. Brib|f j told, the result pf tlie jnventipn ip \ that cold air can be produced at qiig \ fourth the cost necessary for ppj". j duoing it under the ordinary cold-air oqim ; ' preiision.system. The final experiments 1 have just been applied to Mr Chamber? 1 machines at Loudon and StCatherine Docks Oompmy. and the anticipated advantages of the ammonia prooess in combination with Mi' Chambers "oooler"hava been'exhaustively proved. The maohines and oooler stand on; an area of 306 superficial feet and occupy a space of 2295 oubio feet, sad are calculated to maintain at an average of 15 degrees 454 tons of mutton on an average consumption of coal for a voyage througk the tropics of one ton per day. Oh Saturday next, a public exhibition of the process is to be given in the jdwenoe of * arge number of invited