BUTCHER PROSECUTED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22318, 1 May 1947, Page 3

BUTCHER PROSECUTED

| —sWEIGHTS NOT RECORDED • P-A.' DUNEDIN, May 1. The first ce.se of its kind in Otago was heard at the Bnlclutha Magistrate's Court yesterday when J. R. Jayvie. butcher, of Knitangota, pleaded guilty to two charges brought under the rationing emergency regulations. 1942. Jarvic. who is a rural slaughterhouse keeper, was charged with failing to mark on the carcasses the weights of meat and also with not entering those weights on forms issued to him for that purpose by the rationing authority. Detective R. B. Berry said that failure to comply with the regulations made meat rationing difficult to enforce, although in this case there was no suggestion of black marketing. Counsel for Hie defendant said that Jarvic was an ex-serviceman who had commenced business less than two years ago. While admitting that there had been laxity on the part of his client, he asked the Court in view of the fact, that this was the first case of its kind in the district to treat the offences as a warning to all country butchers. Ja’-vie was convicted and lined C 3 on the first charge and -Co on the second.