TOO LITTLE MEAT IN SAUSAGES

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25637, 28 October 1948, Page 3

TOO LITTLE MEAT IN SAUSAGES

BUTCHERS FINED AT INVERCARGILL RATIONING BLAMED (P.A.) INVERCARGILL, October 27. Four city butchers were convicted in the Magistrate’s Court by Mr W. A. Harlow. S.M., to-day on charges of selling sausages with a lower percentage of meat content than is allowed by regulations or with too high a percentage of preservative substance. The informations were laid by the Health Department. The defendants were Albert Hall Thomson. Alexander Innes Milne. Robert Alexander Scott, and Charles William Wilson. Representing Scott and Wilson. Mr I. A. Arthur said the prosecutions were an aftermath of the rationing regula.tions, and they would not occur now that rationing had been lifted. Wilson and Scott had been dependent for meat for sausages on surplus rationed meat. They were amonf three fires. Rationing officers had told them the department was anxious to increase the production and consumption of - sausages to decrease the consumption of rationed meat; customers were disappointed they could not obtain sausages; and then there was the Health Department, which - laid down a regulation insisting on 65 per cent, of meat in sausages. Mr Arthur said there was no qu«tion of financial profit to the defendants because of the high price naid for meal and other ingredients which went into the sausages. Now that meat was unrationed the defendants were adding more than sufficient to their sausages. ' xie Thomson. Milne, and Scott, on tae charge of having an excess of preservative. were ordered to pay costs On the charge of having a meat deficieng, Milne was fined £2 10s, Scott £l. and Wilson £1 ss. Costs against tke four defendants amounted to £25 Ts 6d. Z