MEAT NOT BRANDED.
KAMO BUTCHER FINED, [by telegraph.—own correspondent.] WHANOABEI. Tuesday. On the information of Alexander Macdonald, meat inspector, at the Magistrate's Court to-day, Edward Richard Lowe, butcher, at Kamo, was charged before Mr. F. H. Lovien, S.M, with exposing for sale two carcases .of mutton which had not been brandod with the registered mark. It was the first case of its kind in Whangarei.
The defondant, who pleaded guilty, said he had at the timfe when the offence was committed, been unaware that he could not kill mutton at Kamo for local consumption. He had believed that he could sell ceyond the Whangarei borough boundaries without having to havo the mutton killed and branded at the abattoir.
The magistrate stated that the Act provided for a maximum fine of £50, which signified that the Legislature took a serious viow of a breach. He could not (iccept the statemont that the defendant- did not know that meat which had not been killod at an abattoir or registered slaughterhouse could not be exposed for sale. A fine of £3 and 7s costs woa inflicted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18022, 22 February 1922, Page 5
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183MEAT NOT BRANDED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18022, 22 February 1922, Page 5
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