SHOCKING- CASE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 6

SHOCKING- CASE.

CONDITIONS AT CAFE.

FOOD IN FILTHY STATE,

PROPRIETOR FINED €40

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

SYDNEY, Match 30.

A Sydney magistrate wifh plenty of experience characterised conditions de-srribr-d at h cafe ns the worst ease -lie; had heard of. The proSßCtrttng heaTth inspector also said it was the worst case! lie had ever enme across. The proprietor of the restaurant, which is in Oxford Street, Peter Oily, whs fined £40 forj having failed to keep his premrsee •clean(i iin<l for ha viiu: use 4 fi sleeping apart- • rnent for the ktorn 20 of food. !

The insppoTor siiifl lie round a flitch' of linpori uncovered in an upstairs room. rest i up; on the bed spVrnge underneath n kapok mattros*. The hod was ft'livp with blip*. On the other side of the room on another bed were stored eight pliiss JHTR of treacle and n canvas ba? contniniiin- sngar. The bedroom wall* ami the skirtinjr bnnrrls were infested with buys. '['he bedroom floor was covered with partly burned paper. Celly told him he burnt the paper to try and pet rid of the bugs. On the kitchen floor ihe inspector found an uncovered parbage tin overflowins with kitchen waste and swarming with flies. The floor was littered with scraps of meat, vegetables and bread. On a bench were cooked meat aind pudding on trhich flies were also swarnirn<i. Under the sink ws decomposed food from which issued a dirty, slim*: liquid.

In a room off the kitche.i the inspector found an ice chest which apparently had nevei* been cleaned. There were meat, "bacon, butter and milk in it, and the meat, which'was beside the milk, was in such-an advanced stage of decomposition I*iat when the inspector opened the ice chest do'or Celly immediately tdbk the -meat and tput it in the garbage tin. Behind a showcase used for storing bread were semps oi' bread and bacon which appeared to fraVe been gnawed by rats.

These shocking were followed by an announcement that Cabinet was considering tegislation to deal rigorously with -cafe and other shop owners who are convicted of keeping filthy premises. It is stated that the pcnn'Mes will incKjfte the cancellation of licenses, the iplaeing of a ban on convicted persons agtriilst conducting atry business in "which foodstuffs are handled, and a heavy increase in fines.