CONDEMNED MEAT.
In IMPROPER ■ SHIPMENT
(Press Assn.-r— By ".Telegraph— -Copyright)
(Received May 4, .'8.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 3. '■:. The attentiQh of. the. Hon. T. A. Coghlan, Agent-General for Now South 'Wales, has been drawn the fact that 12§5 sheep , sent fo Liverpool by a £ydriey firm, were sold to a dealer .at the Central Markets, 400 were despatched 1 to, thfe Prey inces, and the "remainder were stored at $mithfield. On the owner ''cx i aminiiig them he called the Chief Inspectors attention to the consignment, and \obtained the • return of the 400, witli the result that, 812 Avere- seized as unfit for ffood, being mainly m a Avasted and emaciated condition. The sheep bore the folloAving label: "Seized by consigners. We desire this meat sold. Fit' for human corisumptipn." \lt '.is pointed put that such a label has/been regarded as a certificate of official inspection at the time, of slaughter.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11842, 4 May 1909, Page 5
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151CONDEMNED MEAT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11842, 4 May 1909, Page 5
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