BUTCHER BEFORE THE COURT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144852, 2 December 1915, Page 7

BUTCHER BEFORE THE COURT.

THE CASE DISMISSED. Jn the Magistrate’s Court this morning, before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., the Sanitary Inspector (Mr. B. Tippins) proceeded against Horace Morgan for conveying meat without a cover from the abattoirs in a vehicle which had no grating. Defendant pleaded not guilty. Tile inspector said that on the morning of November 5, at 5.40, he met defendant on the Devon Road, Fitzroy, driving a grocer’s cart loaded with moat from the abattoirs. • The cart'had no grating and there was no cover over the meat, which-was on sacks. Ho asked Morgan why he was'using the cart, and lie replied that he had no other cart of his own and wanted to get the meat into town as quickly as possible. It was a grocer’s cart, belonging to Mr. M‘Xeili, which defendant had taken without Mr. M‘NciH’B knowledge. Mr. A. 11. Johnstone, who appeared for defendant, told the inspector he must only give evidence. In reply to Mr. Johnstone, • the inspector said there was a cover over the meat in the front of the cart, but not over the tail. There were sacks underneath. In reply to further questions, Mr. Tippins said’there was a cloth over the bottom of the cart and offal on top of it. There were sacks on tup of the offal, and the meat was on top of them. The inspector called Thomas Mack, head slaughterman at the abattoirs. Witness said that he saw defendant loading his cart. There was a canvas on the bottom of the cart and of that were ox tongues, cleaned tripes, sheep’s fry, etc. Clean sacKs were placed next, and then the meat was on top of them. it was a mistake to load meat on top of such things without a cover, and during something like 30 years that he had boon carting meat lie had always used clean sacks. He saw nothing wrong with it. Mr. Johnstone submitted that the case should be dismissed. The inspector had charged Morgan with not having a rover for the meat, but in his evidence he had said there was one. He added that ox tongues, etc., were not offal. Mr. Tippins said he had got tho expression from Mr. Mack. The Magistrate said there was no breach of the by-laws in putting sacks on top of the internal parts of animals to keep them from touching tho carcase. The case would be dismissed.