THE MYSTERIOUS SAUSAGE

Nelson Evening Mail, 29 March 1916, Page 2

THE MYSTERIOUS SAUSAGE

AND- A CHRISTCHURCH At Christchurch the other day a butcher appeared before Mr Bailey. S.M., ' to answer a charge of allowing his preI mises in Lower High street to become a - nuisance by reason of the accumulation .of injurious matter. . j , The City Council inspector (Leslie , Hardie) said that as the result of a i complaint -of a boarding-house keeper , he made an inspection of the defendant's premises. He found about two. halfsacks of meat trimmings ""fairly well gone." and there was also a quantity of , meat trimmings scattered about in a similar state. Witness'continued : "I l went into the sausage house (that's where he fills the skins -vyith, sausage ' meat), and I found a tripe hanging [ about two feet from his bench. It'look- ! Ed as if it had been there about a fortnight, because the maggots —I never sajw anything like it—were in thousands. A; sausage is a mysterious thing at any time, your Worship, but when you get them in a place 3ike this (laughter). The council gave notice a. few weeks ago, but the defendant ignored it. The i whole premises were putrid. The tripe was the worst I've seen in all, my 13 years' experience. It took the bun.'" The Magistrate imposed a fine of £3 and costs.