SLAUGHTER OF CALVES
REGULATIONS GAZETTED (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 18. Regulations under the Agriculture (Emergency Powers) Act ensuring the proper feeding and maturity of cal\cs sold or offered for sale for slaughter for human consumption have been gazetted and will come into force immediately. They provide that no person shall sell or offer for sale any calf unless it he properly and sufficiently fed daily from birth and has been fed not earlier than four hours before the time of its actual removal from his premises. In pursuance of the sale or contract or intended contract for sale the onus of proof that the regulations have been properly carried out will lie on the defendant.
No person shall purchase, drive or convey any calf which appears to be unfit ’through weakness or immaturity to he driven or conveyed to the place of slaughter. The penalty for a breach of the regulations is fixed at £3.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22911, 19 June 1936, Page 18
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