Pure Food.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13336, 27 March 1911, Page 3

Pure Food.

TO THE- EDITOR. Sir, —I don’t know, if it. is anyone's business to inspect food-'for'human consumption, but if there is a Government official appointed, it will perhaps not bo out of place,- to. relate , an-: experience of mine. Homo days back I was in a shop, and remarked to an assistant as to a peculiar odour which seemed to arise from a table on which was displayed a- nice, assortment of bacon. ,Oii looking- under the table I found the eggs (?) that were, presumably, to go with the bacon, and a ticket pn which was written, “Preserved eggs,” and the price. Mr Editor, those well, thpy were at ...the .stage when they should have been buried—were being retailed to the public, who were not, perhaps, able 1 to discriminate between an egg that was fresh and something that was covered with a shell and at the least touch was likely to explode. I am saying this, that if there is a' gentleman who should sec to these tilings, it is time ho had a look round, for ; there is more than the one lot of this class of epegs on sale in this town, and yet : fresh-laid eggs. are to be obtained for a slight increase in price. Really, in a sense, it is, in the case mentioned, no more than the public deserve, if they will go for the cheap grade of articles that are put up and sold as fit for. human food, of which, at least, the best is not too good.—l am, etc., PURE FOOD.