SLAUGHTERING AND INSPECTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14530, 18 November 1910, Page 5

SLAUGHTERING AND INSPECTION.

C [BY TELEGBAPH. SPECIAL corhespoudent.] Wellington, Thursday. * A Bill introduced yesterday proposed that the compensation proposed :to be allowed < for diseased stock shall bo as follows:— ( Heifers and bullocks not exceeding eight i years of ago and of not less value than £3 j per head, and lambs and sheep (other than rams) not exceeding five years of age and of not less value than 10a per head, both 1 Id per pound dressed weight of ■ meat condemned, not including the ! head or any s part of the animal below the knee or hock. i Swine, 2d per pound dressed weight. Cows 1 not exceeding 10 years of age, and of not I less value than £5 per head, 2d per pound g dressed weight _ Calves of not less than i 601b dressed weight, |d per pound dressed 1 weight. ■ b .The Bill also alters the definition of 8 "moat export slaughterhouse to mean a . slaughterhouse wherein no less than 25 per 1 cent, of the stock slaughtered is for export beyond New Zealand. It is also proposed ( that no meat shall be moved from the slaughtering place for human consumption, S or for export, unless and until the inspector v declares it to be free from disease. t; =============== ; . (