BUTCHER PROSECUTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 2, 3 January 1931, Page 7

BUTCHER PROSECUTED.

N.Z. MEAT PRODUCERS BOARD

-ARGENTINE LAMB SOLD AS N.Z.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON", November 24. Another case of sale of Argentine lamb New Zealand was punished last week, by a Grimsby magistrate, when Herbert Clarkson, a Cleethorpes butcher, and his shop manager,'.were fined £10 each and ordered to pay costs. ■The London office of the New Zealand Meat. Producers' Board is still carrying on its' vigorous campaign to secure that inferior produce - shall not be sold as New Zealand, and as a result of. a pr.osecution instituted by- them, Clarkson, who owns several shops «in Grimsby and Cleethorpes,- is the latest to be found selling his meat wrongly labelled. Counsel on behalf of the .board stated tha' an inspector of his. board saw displayed oil the • windows, advertising material calling attention to New Zealand lamb, and in addition, a celluloid ticket was shown inside the shop bearing the wordr "Canterbury Lamb;" The board's representative, in his evidence, said that he asked for a nice leg or shoulder of New .Zealand la'mb, and Garrick, the shop manager, reached do tvn a forequarter of lamb aiid cut a shoulder., Witness then asked: "This is Naw Zealand lamb, isn't it?" Garrick replied "Yes." The board's representative immediately saw that it .was not New Zealand but Argentine. f