INYERCARGILL ABATTOIERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13146, 7 April 1906, Page 6

IN YERCARGILL ABATTOIERS.

MR. GILRUTH AND THE COUNCIL.

[BY TBMiUKAI'II.—I'RKS.S ASSOCIATION'.]

CiiiiisrciiCßCH,'Friday. To-day Mr. Oilruth. the chief Government veterinarian,- met the Borough Council with reference to abattoir matters. There was some difference of opinio:) as to the subjects to be discussed, councillors expecting that their request for the sole services of an inspector was: the only matter to bo considered, while Mir, Gil ruth desired to ventilate matters raised by members of the Council at a recent meeting, and which had been referred to a committee, which has riot yet renorted. : '

With reference to the impression of a meat stamp, which a councillor had produced at a Council meeting, explaining that he. fotiuTl the stamp lying in an open office for anyone to pick up, Mr. Gilrtith said that the councillor had no right to touch the stamp, which was the'' properly of the King. He also said it was not the inspector's duly to stamp meal. He had only to pass it. The stamping might lie done by another person on his instructions. Mr. Gilruth held that the fact of the stamp being in the office was sufficient protection against its unlawful use, and that, it was not necessary that it should be locked up.

hi the course of discussion on the question of having an inspector for the sole use of tin: abattoirs, it was stated that the actual work would not exceed' 90 minutes per day, and Mr. Gilruth* said it would be a waste of an 'inspector's time if lie could do work at other places.. ,To this councillors retorted that £200 per annum seemed a. big price to pay for about an hour a day. The Council desired to nuke the inspector also manager of the abattoirs- at £250, and to this Mr. Gilruth had no objection, but thought the inspector could do other work. Nothing definite was arrived at, but Mr. Gilruth will "meet the Abattoir Committee at Ins works to-morrow, and point out the necessary improvements, a councillor having stated, that the place, was going to wreck and ruin.