AUSTRALIAN MEAT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 20 June 1913, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN MEAT.

HARRASSING AMERICAN REGULA-

TIONS

CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYEIGHT.

(Received June 20, 1.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 19. Alarmed at the growth of the Australian meat trade the Department of Agriculture has issued an order that every piece of meat imported from Australia must be examined -l»y the local Inspectors. Heretofore shipments have !been passe_ on proof being furnished, of examination of a few specimens taken r tit random. The new order means a delay of three days while the examination is proceeding, thus adding considerably 't -> the cost of unloading. "The'Ventura has arrived at San "Francisco with a cargo of 1200 packages of :meat.