BOBBY CALF TRADE
FEEDING OF ANIMALS
REGULATIONS GAZETTED
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night
Regulations under the Agriculture (Emergency Powers) Act ensuring proper feeding and maturity of calves sold or offered for sale for slaughter for human consumption have been gazetted and come into force immediately.
They provide that no person .s'hall sell or offer for sale any calf unless it be 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 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, or allow such an animal to be driven or conveyed to a place of slaughter. The penalty for a breach of the regulations is fixed at £5.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19045, 19 June 1936, Page 9
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