HOSPITAL BOARD REPORT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 12 July 1923, Page 5

HOSPITAL BOARD REPORT.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —In reading over the report of the farm manager to the Hospital ! Board, as repoted in your columns on | Monday, it appears that the farm supj plies bacon and beef besides the usual farm products, milk, etc. Now lam pleased to see that the farm is doing a service, and it is in no way as opposing the scheme that I now write; I only want a little information as regards the bacon and the beef. Ar© the beasts killed on the farm without inspection, or do they all pass through the abattoirs? It is too serious to let go without an explanation. The report is too brief to explain, how the beasts became bacon' and beef.—l am, etc., T. W. J. HQWELL. [IWe referred the correspondent's letter to the secretary of the Hospital Board, who states that all cattle are killed at the borough abattoirs, where there is a most rigid inspection, and the' pigs are killed at Messrs. T. H. Walker and Sons' bacon factory on the Tawhiti Road, where a Government inspector looks at the animals before they are killed and then gives them a thorough inspection again before they are cured. The secretary also adds] that for the board's own satisfaction, and to guard against disease in milk or meat, the stock at the farm was thoroughly inspected and tested recently by the Agricultural Department's inspectors. It was found that the beasts, were in a perfectly healthy condition.— Ed.] -