OUR MEAT SUPPLY.

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 February 1911, Page 8

OUR MEAT SUPPLY.

feo THE EDITOR.] Sir,—! beg to point out that our meat supply is very unsatisfactory, both in legal 1 dto price and I babe had to pass the abattoirs on my way to work for the last two months, and I have noticed on several occasions that the stencil from the ground neat' where ilie uightsoil is being denosited, is carried by n north wind right through the abattoirs in among the meat. The n'urhtsoil from the hospital is also spread about the head of the lagoon, and this augments the stench carried to the abattoirs. The present system of yupning meat about in carts is out ot date end causes too much handling. The carts should be large enough to admit of the meat being hung up. so that customers rnn point out what they want without having the meat mauled about. The fact that we are paying twice a smnch for meat h n re to what it is sold for in London (after paying ('hipping, freezing and insurants) renders it necessary that the Borough should take control of the meat supply here. The fact that the Gear Company. of Wellington, implied Millerton and Denniston mines with meat at less than threepence n?r lb. when the once of meat was at its height, is proof that the Borough could supply meat at threepence ner pound and make a profit out of it. — Yours, etc., C. WESLEY.