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ANOTHER MEAT CASE
(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 27th March. As a sequel to a visit by the travelling inspector of the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board, to a shop of the Argenta Meat Company, Ashton, the company was summoned for applying a false trade description to a leg of mutton, and James Gregory, of Ashto*n, was similarly summoned. Mr. K. W. Butcher, for the firm, pleaded guilty, and Mr. Roberts, barrister, who prosecuted, said the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board sought to advance in this country the interests of the New Zealand meat trade.
Gregory was a salesman for the Argenta Meat Company. On 10th. January one of the. inspectors of the board looked in the window of the shop, and saw certain legs of mutton ticketed "Canterbury mutton," but to his practised eye they were not of New Zealand origin, but were South American. Ho bought one, and Gregory said, "It's Canterbury, and. a really nice leg." ■ •
Mr. Butcher said the matter had arisen through Gregory ticketing the meat while it was in the window and not in the shop, otherwise he would have seen the stamp of the Argentine Government. * •
A fine of £20 and £7 7s costs was imposed on. the company, Gregory being fined 10s.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 110, 12 May 1930, Page 9
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