MEAT INSPECTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8964, 23 August 1892, Page 3

MEAT INSPECTION.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—For the information of your correspondent Enquirer "on the above subject, I would refer him to your leading article on the 10th instant, and my reply thereto appearing on the 15th instant. I have therein shown that amended Acts of Parliament have virtually overridden the Abattoir and Slaughterhouses Act of 1577 and permitted slaughterhouses to be established pretty well anywhere for a license fee of 20s. It is useless seeking to cast blame on those who are powerless to remedy the evils your correspondent alludes to. Cattle, to be properly inspected, must be seen when alive and at the time of killing. This the City Council have no power to enforce. It is almost useless hen once killed and dressed for selling purposes, unless we had an army of inspectors. The inspection must be at the fountain head, and all meat sent into the city for sale, use, or export should be killed only at the City Abattoirs under inspection, and the inspector held responsible both by fine and dismissal for any cattle killed un fitted for human food. It is not quite so easy as " Inquirer" thinks to prove meat unfit tor human food. Cases have occurred here where two witnesses were called to prove the meat bad, but five swore the meat was not bad or diseased.—l am, etc.. Consumer.