THE NEW ZEALAND 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 
AND 
TECHNOLOGY. 
VOL. 1. WELLINGTON, JULY, 1918. C No, 4 
THE FROZEN-MEAT INDUSTRY OF NEW ZEALAND 
(Continued from page 166). 
By M. A. Eliott. 
Space will not permit me to do more than briefly allude to the docks, 
methods of unloading, and means of distribution, &c., in Great Britain. 
The magnitude of the undertaking is enormous. In London alone the 
cool stores now have a capacity for 3,000,000 carcases. The first mention 
of a public cool store in London was a small building in Charterhouse Street 
in about 1880 ; and it is very interesting to learn that considerable oppo¬ 
sition was raised to this building, on the grounds that 44 The Court should 
therefore be careful not to start or encourage a new industry for preserving 
that in which decay has taken place.” How little conception the man who 
made that speech had of the future ! The first dock cool store was at 
A Jetty, Victoria Dock, in 1881, with a capacity for 44,000 carcases. 
Since 1909 all dock stores have been taken over and administered by the 
Port of London Authority. 
In 1883 a cold store was established in the vaults under the poultry- 
market at Smithfield, but was a failure. Later the Central Markets Cold 
Storage Company was formed, and stores were built in King Street and 
Poplar. In 1885 Nelson Bros, built a store in the arches under the Cannon 
Street Railway-station, and in 1892 a large store in Commercial Road, 
Lambeth, with a capacity for 250,000 carcases. Both these stores after¬ 
wards passed to the Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company. 
The Union. Cold Storage Company (the largest of any storage company 
in the world) now have stores in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Hull, 
and Glasgow, with capacities for millions of carcases, and could comfortably 
hold a year’s shipments from New Zealand. The refrigerating machinery 
has a total refrigerating-power of 3,000 carcases per day. 
In addition to the above are the cold stores of Borthwicks, Eastmans, 
Nelson Bros., River Plate Company, Sansinenas, and others. 
There are over a hundred towns in the United Kingdom with public 
cool storage, and the total available storage is over 8,500,000 carcases. 
Usually 75 per cent, of frozen meat is marketed within a month of 
arrival, although at times it is held for six months and even more. 
The principal dock stores are at Victoria and Albert Docks, and steamers 
discharge direct into these ; the chief railways run alongside, the meat 
being loaded into railway-wagons for distribution in the provinces. 
13—Science. 
