INSPECTION OF MEAT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11951, 29 March 1894, Page 3

INSPECTION OF MEAT.

The Rev. A. Chodowski has been inter- -< viewed by the Otago Daily Times on his views as to the necessity of inspecting meat intended for human food. " The meat is niore wholesome here, on the whole, than at Homo," ho says, " but I find adhesions of the lungs more common among sheep here than at Home. I attribute that to the fact that at Home sheep are kept in stables, whereas hero they ate exposed in the pad' docks night and day. Still, if diseases in cattle in this country aie not prevalent, that does not justify us in Degleciing inspection. If we find one deceased bullock in it hundred, that would be sufficient reason for having inspection. The examinations which I have made convince me of the necessity of inspection on behalf of the Government." He suggests that a company should be formed, with whom a butcher might insure all his stock, paying a premium according to the number of cattle he kills ; and if it were proved by Government inspection that a carcase was unfit for human consumption, the company should tako possession of that carcase — which they could utilise in many ways, but not for human consumption — and the butcher, receiving the amount for which the animal was insured, would not lose anything. The company would not lose either. It would pay them. Suppose a butcher here kills 600 bullocks a year, one of which is condemned, he would probably get £8 from the insurance company for that, but the premiums be would pay would amount to JE2S or £30. One butcher might get from the company more than ho paid in premiums, but P" anothor, who had good luck and no deceased cattle, would pay for that. Then he is sure that the pubhc could not object to pay a half-penny per lb. more when they knew they were getting wholesome meat. Two inspectors would be quite sufficient for Dunedin, provided there was a public abattoir. Without,an abastoir it could not be done. Mr Cho dowski strongly advocates that there should be abatoirs in every town in Now Zealand.