A Thames Complaint.

Thames Star, Volume XLII, Issue 10682, 10 August 1905, Page 1

A Thames Complaint.

SLAUGHTERING AND INSPECTION EILL. The following letter signed by ''Thames Butcher" on the Slaughtering and Inspection, Bill has appeared in the Wellington Post:— "Sir, —The butchers carrying oa business in the city and suburbs of Wellington, who waited on the Minister for Agriculture to object to the clause in the Slaughtering and Inspection Bill \inder which thelo'cal authority may delegate itß powers to a pi-ivat© company, will be interested to know that the local authority at Thames has delegated its powers to • private company, which is being worked for all they are worth as a business concern. This company, prior to the present Aot becoming law, carried on (the business of auctioneers and slaugthtermeni. A few hundred yards from the present abattoirs itfiere existed another slaughterhouse, and while this was in exist- ' ence the company referred to slaugh.----i tered and delivered th© meat for I about one-half the cost of its present i charges. We have done our utmost, both with, the local authority and th,« Minister for Agriculture, to obtain redress, but without success; in fact, a deaf ear 'has been turned to us and an evasive reply given, so* that the only course open; is to petition) Parliitmeat. Our experience of the Slaughtering and Inspection Bill is that it means purely and simply 'monopoly,* and in its present form it imposes a very heavy handioap on the retal butcher. ' ...