COCKROACH IN BOWL OF SOUP: RESTAURANT PROPRIETOR CHARGED

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 August 1949, Page 7

COCKROACH IN BOWL OF SOUP: RESTAURANT PROPRIETOR CHARGED

WELLINGTON, August 18 (P.A.) —After a customer in a Wellington restaurant had complained that he had found a cockroach in. a bowl of soup he had been served, the restaurant was visited by an inspector. In the Magistrate’s Court today, the inspector said he had visited the premises of the Cofl’e Pot restaurant in Lambton quay on July 27 and found cockroaches cn the walls of the kitchen and in the food bins. Behind one bin he found several colonies of cockroaches and tins of food on the shelves were so thickly covered with cockroaches that it was impossible to read labels and ascertain what the food tins contained. The inspector alleged that the proprietor, Jack Karageorge, grabbed him by the arm, pushed him towards the door, flung the inspector s hat and satchel on the floor, and told him to got out. “As I turned round, he had a small knife with a sharp point in his hand, the inspector said. Karageorge, who faced two charges of hindering sanitary inspectors in the course of their work, said in evidence that the cockroaches had come in boxes of food he bad bought from a wholesaler. There was not more than “a couple of dozen cockroaches.” Karageorge alleged the inspector had told lies about the affair. Mr J. R- Herd, S.M., said there had been no corroboration of the inspector’s allegations of “knife pulling,” but there definitely had been some hindrance on Karageorge’s part. A fine of £2 was imposed on one charge and the other -was dismissed.