MEAT INSPECTION

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1718, 7 April 1906, Page 2

MEAT INSPECTION

VETERINARIAN AND COUNCIL. j(F«* Pres« Annoclatlon.) Invercargill, last night. To-day Mr Gilrntb, Chief Government Veterinarian, met the Borough Council with referenoe to abattoir matters. There was a difference of opinion as to the subjects to be dieoussed, Councillors expeoting that their request for the sole ssrvices of an Inspector was the only matter to be considered, while Mr Gilruth desired to ventilate matters raised by members of the Counoil at a recent meeting, and which had been reforrod to a committee whioh has Dot yet repotted With refereroe to the impression of the meat stamp which a Councillor bad produced at the Counoil meeting, and explained that he found the stamp laying io an open offioe for anyone to pick up, Mr Gilruth said that the Councillor had no right to touch the stamp, which was ibo property of the King. Ho also said it was not the Inspector’s duty to stomp meat. He had only to pass it. Stamping might be done by another person on bis instructions. Mr Gilruth held that tho fact of the slamp being in the cffiio was sufficient protection against its unlawful use, and that it was not nec.-88ary that it should be locked

up. In the oourse of discussion of the question of having an laspeotor for tho sole use of the abattoirs, it was stated that the aotual wotk would not exoeed ninety minutes per day, and Mr Gilruth said it was a wa te of the Inspector’s time if he could do wotk et other places. To this Councillors retorted that £2OO per annum seemed a big price to pay for about an hour a day. The Council desired to make the Inspector also manager of the abattoirs at £250, and to this Mr G.lruth had no objection, but thought the Inspector could do other work. Nothing di finite was arrived at, but Mr Gilruth will meet the abattoir’s committee at the works tomorrow, und point out necessary improvements, a Councillor having stated that the place was going to wreck and ruin.