INSPECTION OF PORK.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1130, 18 May 1911, Page 8

INSPECTION OF PORK.

THE CONDITIONS IN .THE CITY. The pigs tho farmers sell to the Wellington butchers have been concerned in b, matter which created somo interest in the city in tho last few days. Pigs are not put through the abattoir, and tho custom was that a Government inspector Trent to the butoilers' shops .and there examined the carcasses before they •were cut up for sale. With this system the butchers wero satisfied, but mmour that thero was to be some alteration ■which would press hard upon them evoked protest. A meeting of the trade was held last night. It then transpired that ' the butchers were under a misapprehension, and ihe outcome is that the carcasses will be held until tho inspector examines them, as formerly. It is ; probable, however, that ' tho butchers will make a request for another inspector to be put on. ' They say that on a busy day like ■ Friday one inspector has too much to do to permit of his examining tho pork in all the shops in pood time. If, they put forward as an instance, he reaches a shop late on Friday afternoon, it may cause- serious inconvenience, as the employees must go at five o'clock, and the pork may not bo eut up ready for Saturday.