HANDLING FROZEN MEAT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1649, 16 January 1913, Page 10

HANDLING FROZEN MEAT.

', 'Adviccs from Londoxii datcdi'Decembert ; state tliat"an*'im^rtdn^quesHpn'.'iaffectT. 1 '-'Jng'-.ltbe'handling.'.-pV! : -;frdzeii: inieat/' was;' j.v'l pslced in the Jlouso of Commons the perf.. Vious Monday.; It was put .by Mr.- Donnis, i. -*who asked tho President of tho Bomxl or J.-' ft'rade whether.his attention had been ca\l- [; „ "'cd';to the.' mannerwhich"'frozen";meat jvl.'V,distributed, 'being "covered with very f {thin; canvas; and sacking, put, on the, floor f.''■■ ■ ■ Lof filthy' goods wagons, thrown' on to - the t platforms of 'stations; (where ;it;' lies ?'fcir t,.*'.((hours,'while at-country stations dogs roam i' round it i" and-whether, in tho interest of (theHpublioVhealth,■'lkj' will .consider .the; t\ . desirability \'ot introducing legislation 'to L" ;.require - frozen; meat should'be { carried-only!'--ia- special;vans,-i-suspended | froih hooks, arid not'allowed to' touch the { 1 ■ ground.: :31r.; S.,Buxton feplied that' the p attention of the Board of Trade did not appear to .have ,been called to this .-matj ter.' If the hbn. member would furnish f : 'him with particulars'-of any cases ■' in j f.. -which frozen meat :had -been treated in f\; tho manner-described ho would l>e glad to I'- .-. have the matter looked into, and. to. conf . ivhethor ariy' steps', need ,l«)ltakenl. ; ;