BOBBY CALVES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 95, 4 November 1947, Page 7

BOBBY CALVES

DEFINITION GIVEN USEFUL INFORMATION

.Regulations gazetted on the 13th August, 1947, contain some very interesting information, the most important being the definition of a bobby calf. “Bobby Calf” means a calf which is sold or intended for sale for the purpose of being slaughtered for the production of boneless bobby veal and includes any other calf that has a live weight of less than 1001 b. and that is sold or intended for sale for the purpose of being slaughtered at a meat-export slaughterhouse or an abattoir.

The functions of a bobby calf committee shall be to regulate and Control in such manner as it thinks fit the marketing of all bobby calves raised or produced within the pool area for which the committee is established.

All payments for bobby calves delivered to a meat export slaughterhouse or an abattoir shall be remitted by post to the vendor. No producer carrying on business within any area of land declared to be a pool area for the purpose of these reulations shall sell, and no person shall purchase from such producer, any bobby calf raised or produced in that area except through the agency of the committee established for that area.

No person, whether as principal or agent, shall purchase, drive, or convey any bobby calf which appears to be unfit by reason of weakness or immaturity to be driven or conveyed to the place at which it is intended to be slaughtered. Every vendor of bobby calves shall erect at each place where his calves are to be collected a suitable pen readily accessible from the roadside and so constructed as to provide adequate shelter from the weather for calves placed therein. Every person commits an offence against these regulations who, without lawful excuse, acts in contravention of or fails to comply in any respect with any provision of these regulations or any direction, restriction, requirement, or condition given or imposed under these re r gulations.