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Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 58, 4 March 1913, Page 7

"T very much doubt whether the lav would allow horseflesh to he exported," said one gentleman who has a prominent place in the Auckland meat trade, when shown the telegram, stating that a Hawera stock buyer had received a.n order from the Continent for frozen horse-meat (says the 'Star'), hilt in any case it doesn't matter, for horseflesh is worth more than mutton or beef in this country. If the exporters wanted to 'akc the nlacp of the knacker's yard thcr would only be able to kill old "and broken-down horses, and it is quite eert;,i" that the Government officers would lot allow the flesh of such animals to b n sent away for human consumption. There is "noiifih inferior meat being - 1 snorted a'ready, without the addition of horseflesh. -At one time nothing hut prime finality was allowed to be exported in quarters : all the inferior meat "■'is and put in boxes—the flesh of old bulls and cows, and all sorts of meat that would not be fit for disnlay in a butcher's window. T believe it is -yistlv consumed in Scotland and the North of Fngland, where they cut it "u iivto collops and mincemeat. Now the Government is allowing such meat to ao away in Quarters, and I shouldn't "'onder if thfy allowed horse to go away in "nureo of time." A young man sentenced at "H illesden to 14 days for theft remarked, "Hough ' This makes my s : xth Christmas inside."

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