THE MEAT QUESTION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 196, 22 August 1867, Page 2

THE MEAT QUESTION.

To the Editob of thb Nelson Evening- Maie. Sir —Your correspondent "A Voice'* put to me a question in your paper, which I answered as an act of courtesy to him and your readers, though, as I have said, I might have fairly declined f to: reply. > s. I am fully aware thatjTin discharging: ' what I believed tobe apublic Uuty,l had, to giy? expressioVtO/op^^ be unpalatablei't'6 1 some, but'as mahyipeopi©^

have since expressed their thanks tome for calling attention to the question I trust the number I have offended is very few. Your correspondent "A Tradesman" thiuks that the "cobbler should stick to his last," and not look beyond it or take a wide view of things, and accuses me of not sticking to my last, when I complained that the process of making sheep outwardly clean so as to pass the inspector, does not also make them fat and wholesome, I am afraid I must plead guilty to this aeeusafciou, and confess that I am not always satisfied with looking only skindeep into such matters. In some matters it is very well for the cobbler to stick to his last, but this is a * matter which no amount of cobbling will remedy. Indeed the question of biead, flour, yeast, baking, mutton, scab, wool is one of so wide a scope that I regret I have not leisure to enter further into it; but if you could .find time to collect some information on the source, prime cost, and retail price of things it would be of much more interest to me and many of jour -readers than any article on " the Native question." I am, etc., S. A. Ctjsack. : August 21st, 1867.