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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 218, 12 September 1906, Page 5

Chicago's methods iv the meat- business are not confined to Chicago. At Perth a couple of weeks ago a butcher was lined //and £3 13/ costs for having in his possession unwholesome meat for the j purpose of sale. The Board of Health I Inspector said he and another inspector : visited defendant's shop. They exant-jined-first the meat in the ice-chamber. j Witness picked out two pieces of bee°. ! which he saw were in a state of putreI faction, ard took possession of them. In 1 . a kerosene tin under the counter he came I upon a '•' mass of putrefaction in brine." jlt was " composed of small pieces of meat, and bones, aud such like. ; " In reply to a query as to what he was going to do with the stuff, the defendant answered. •' I am going to supply it to a man to make sausages.' 5 " I told him," said the witness, "you are selling murder to the Giving evidence in his own behalf, witness said he was an American butcher; in fact, he was from Chicago, in America it was the custom to hang meat for some time before sell- ! ing it. Tlie neck was the first part to jgo bad, and the pieces found by the j inspector were the neck. He had no inI tention of selling bad meat to the pubI lie, but always kept wholesome flesh. As ! regards the stuff that was in the tin, *' the meat itself was all right, but the i brine had gone bad." i. — , i —— •