MOULDY MEAT

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 180, 31 July 1920, Page 5

MOULDY MEAT

A SHIPMENT STOPPED

[from our correspondent.] WELLINGTON, July 30. The Prime-,MinistesS was asked by Mr P. Fraser to-day if it was correct ihat the Wellington wa,tersido workers refused tb-^day-'tO: handle some neat being shipped oit the City, of Winchester, on the ground that it was unfit for- human consumption. He wanted to know what action the Imperial Supplies Departnxut intended to tak-J •

Mr Ma&sey replied that he had not heard about the watorsiders' action, lut what the Imperial Supplies Department did was to send back to the freezing works some mea.t which was mouldy. A portion which had been shipped was taken off. for return to the worbs, where suitable portions would be canned and the rest boiled down for tallow. Not a single carcase would be allowed ;to be shipped ml ess it was perfectly; sound.