BLOWFLY FOUND IN PIE
BAKER FINED AT TIMARU (From Our Own Reporter) TIMARU, April 12. “The public is entitled to have its food uncontaminated and this is a revolting thing to happen to anyone,” said the Magistrate, Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., in the Timaru Magistrate's Court this morning, when he convicted and fined Ivan William Hosking, a baker (Mr L. J. O’Connell) £7 on a charge of having supplied for sale a pie which had a blowfly embedded in the crust. Hosking pleaded guilty. Mr R. S. Frapwell appeared for the Health Department. Mr O’Connell said that Hosking, who was a baker, baked his pies and sold them wholesale to milkbars and hotels in Timaru. Defendant had found that this was the most profitable part of his business and he took particular care to provide a good product. In two years defendant estimated that he had baked 200,000 meat pies and on no other occasion as far as he knew had a blowfly or any other unpleasant matter been found in one of his pies.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26395, 13 April 1951, Page 9
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