THE CITY'S PORK.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1847, 5 September 1913, Page 10

THE CITY'S PORK.

CLEARING HOUSE SUGGESTED. CONTROL OP SALES. A. report was submitted to the City Council last night by the committee sotup to inquire mto tho question of tho inspection of pork sold in the city. Tho report ran as follows: — The committee held an inquiry into the inspection of pork, as requested by the council. Evidence was given by Mr. C. J. lleakes, the Government Chief Veterinary Surgeon; Mr. J. C. Mackloy, Abattoir Inspector; Mr. A. Carr, Government Inspector; Mr. S. G. Watson, Corporation Inspector; Mr. S. C. Baron, of Messrs. Dimock and Co.; and also several retail and wholesale vendors of pork. 1. Tho evidence did disclose tho fact that it was quite possible for noninspectcd pork to reach consumers. 2. Tho representative butchers who gavo evidence satisfied your committee that tho butchers in Wellington cooporate with tho Agricultural Department to facilitate tho inspection of tho pork bought by them, and intended for sale. 3. The present inspection of pork not slaughtered at an abattoir is made by means of tho glands, which are left in the carcass until inspection at tho various shops and markets by the Government Inspector. '1. The ovidenco tended to show that tho average condemnation of pigs examined at tho time of slaughter was higher than tho average condemnation at butchers' shops. 5. Regarding tho statement made b.v Councillor Goober, the chairman of tho Abattoirs Committee, that partial condemnation was allowed at tho abattoirs, this statement was ascertained to be correct. The committee consulted Mr. Iteakes on tho subject, and the information given by him is as under:—"He stated that in some cases tho infected part (mostly the throat) was sometimes only slightly diseased, but which did not •affect the remainder of the carcass. In such cases tho head was condemned, and tho carcass passed as fit for human consumption. This, he assured the committee, was perfectly safe." Your committeo have to recommend: (a) That a pork clearing house bo erected convenient to the railway station. (b) That it bo mado a penal offence for any person to sell pork in the city for human consumption, unless tho same lias been inspected at an abattoir or tho clearing houso (c) That the Government bo requested to reduco tho cost of freight on livo pigs consigned to an abattoir, also to make tho compartments of tho trucks for the carriage of live pigs smaller, and also to see that tho dead pigs aro handled in a moro careful manner. (d) That tho council empower this committee, acting in conjunction with 1 tho Abattoirs Committee, to wait on tho Minister for Agriculture to urge upon the Government to give immediate effect ■ to the abovo recommendations, either by ; waji of regulation or by the amending of the Act. i Tho report was adopted practically I without comment.

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