OUR MEAT TRADE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 132, 7 June 1906, Page 2

OUR MEAT TRADE.

,|IR MOORE'S ALLEGATIONS

STARTLING STATEMENTS

ROYAL COMMISSION ASKED FOR

The following is the full text of the N.Z. Times' version of Mr Moore's disclosures, a telegraphic resume of which appeared in yesterday's Exr-KJBSS:— :■.-.•-..■ A bomb-like notice of mption was tabled at the meeting of the. Wellington Hospital Trustees on Tuesday morning, when Mr F. T. Moore, ot Johi|sonyiile, intimated his intention to move, at the next meeting of the Trustees,-' a fortnight hence; the following motion :p=- • ' "That, in view,of the recent disclosures in America, the Wellington Hospital Trustees ask the Premier to set up a Royal Commission for the purpose of publicly investigating the nature of the sources of supply and the methods of, the purveyors of moat for the city of Wellington, such Commission to be empowered to examine persons connected with the trade on oath, search books and documents, and inspect'premises in the interests of public health."

Mr Moore said, in view of the disclosures that had been made regarding the methods of the meat trade in Chicago, that it was- incumbent upon the Hospital Trustees to take up the matter of investigating the local meat supply. The Government was spending something like' £20,000 a year on it, and yet was\allowiri"g the people to be poisoned by bad meat..,lt was well known in certain quarters' -that the inspection of meat was a farce, and diseased cattle were passed ;by the hundred with'% little ''gilding bf the palm.!"; " '■■>'■■■ ■'■■ [ '■"■ ''" •:" ' ' <■*"'"

The chairman (in-, astonishment) — Not in New Zealand, MP Moore f" Mi- Moore—Yes, here in Wellington. The same practices that hack beeii condemned in America, he went*'on, existed in Wellington, arid if the publio thought otherwise they were making a very great mistake; ■ The reason he asked for a Royal Commission was that the meat magnates might 1)6 put .upon oath. '.■:- -• - ' ' ' i ■;' ■

The chairman drew the speaker's attention to the fact that the^ press reporters were present, and'that as it was only a motion it could not be discussed, but he allowed the speaker a little latitude on- account of the serious nature of his charges. ; Mr Moore went on to say that in his special knowledge, there was no' inspection of meat whatever at slaughterhe uses at Mir'amai I,' Happy Vjilley, Porirua, Upper. Hutt, anq in corisequence not one in a thoiisahd iqarcases killed were., condemned'whe.ref 'there should be several per cent: fi-ohvt'iiber-culosis alone. The matter was oiie for a seai'ching investigation. ■•"•:■■ The chairman statedthatihetaatter would cohie; tip for' discii'ssion' at the next meeting of the' Trustees'. ' ' '•'"■'