BAD FISH AND CHIPS

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 48, 25 February 1921, Page 8

BAD FISH AND CHIPS

FINES OF £20 IMPOSED.

The witnesses called by tho police at tho Magistrate's Court this morning in support of a charge against Henry Paris, fishmonger, of 128, Adelaide-road, of having sold fish unfit for consumption, were most emphatic in their statements. Two had been made violently ill, they said, by the little fish they had eaten from, their parcels of fish and chips, and another thought best of taking a part of the fish, home to hi-s cat. Pans stated that he had bought 40 snapper from the markets on tho day in question, and 6aid that if the fish sold to the complainants was '.'on tho turn" it was by an accident. No other complaints ha<l been made to him, and on all occasions ho took full care in preparing his fish. ' He had been willing to refund the purchase money or to exchange the fish, but 1 those offers the men refused. '

In anewer to Sub-Inspector Willis, Paris admitted that ho had been convicted of a similar offence previously. The Magistrate, Mr. I. K. Hunt, said that tho public must be protected, and that tho Act placed an absoluto liability on the seller to soe' that the goods sold were what they should be. There were two charges against Paris, and a fine of £10 and costs would be imposed on each.