DISEASED MEAT IN LONDON.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10719, 18 March 1911, Page 1

DISEASED MEAT IN LONDON.

NOT FROM LYTTELTON. (Pek Press Association.) Christehurcli, March 17. A great deal of surprise was caused ill Christehurcli to-day by a cable message, published this morning, stating that the medical officer of health at Loudon' reported that from 27 to 56 per cent, of three consignments of ox livers from Brisbane and Lyttelton were diseased and unlit for food. Enquiries made in Christehurcli this morning failed to find any information in regard to ox livers having been exported from Lyttelton within the past few months. At any rate neither the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company nor the Christchurch Meat Company exports the article, and the Collector of Customs states that it does not appear in his list of exports for the quarter which

will end on March 31st. The Agricultural Department evidently shares in the surprise caused by the statement. Early this morning it sent a telegram to Mr A. A. JolHiston. Government veterinary surgeon in Christehurcli, instructing him to inquire into the statement. He is doing so, and to headquarters to-day.' It is believed that a mistake has been made in the.health officers' report, or in the cable messages in associating the consignments with Lyttelton. .