CALVES FOR SLAUGHTER
New Regulations Issued By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, June 18. The following regulations under the Agriculture (Emergency Powers) Act ensuring the proper feeding and maturity of calves sold or offered for sale for slaughter for human consumption have been gazetted and will come into force immediately. They provide that no person shall sell or offer for sale any calf unless it has been properly and sufficiently fed daily from birth and has been fed not .earlier than four hours before the time of its actual removal from the owner’s premises. In pursuance of a sale or contract or intended contract for sale, the onus of proof that' the regulations have been properly carried out will lie,on the defendant. No person shall purchase, drive or cause any calf which appears to bo unfit through weakness or immaturity to be driven or conveyed to tho place of slaughter. The penalty for breach of the regulations is fixed at £5.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 158, 19 June 1936, Page 8
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