MOTH INFECTED APPLES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 136, 23 May 1928, Page 9

MOTH INFECTED APPLES.

(To the Editor). Sir, —1 am glad to see by a letter in Friday’s "I'ribune” that others besides myself are endeavouring to draw the attention of the proper authorities to the sale of diseased and moth-infected apples. This is not only done by orchardists who ought to and do know better, it being contrary to the law to sell such fruit, but there are a certain number of individuals going about the country buying sheep skins and dead wool and at the same time hawking round diseased fruit, chiefly apples and pears. The said fruit is carried about in benzine cases without lids and dead wool and odiferous sheep skins thrown on top. There are sanitary inspectors to see that fruiterers and others keep their premises in u healthy state and if

some Chinaman is discovered trying to ripen his bananas in a none too clean back yard, he has to answer for it in the police court, yet these hawkers are permitted to sell blighted fruit, which a fruiterer would not be allowed to sell even if he wanted to, and at the same time have it in contact with filthy and often verminous wool and sheep skins, and none of our too numerous inspectors in our over-governed country, lift a finger to stop this insanitary and unlawful practice. I may add I write of what I myself have seen and not merely from hearsay.—Yours, etc., FAIRPLAY. Hastings, 22/5/28.