DISEASED POTATOES.
' ACTION. BY VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS. (By Telegraph— Per Press Association) NEW IPYIMOUTH, April 8. On Saturday morning Mr F. B. Gardiner, district health officer, paid a visit to the railway goods shed, "auction marts and stares, where potatoes which had recently arrived from the south are lying.. After inspecting them he prohibited the sale of all which are unfit for human consumption. .Beyond this he could not igx> as a health inspector may only prohibit the sale of food unfit |for ihuman consumption, "but cannot prevent diseased potatoes being sold for pig food, and so spreading disease. Nor can he prevent dis- • cased tubers beinig picked out and the remainder sold. The orchards, gardens and apiaries /branch of the Agricultural Department also took action as the result of which the local stock inspector (Mr Munro) took formal possession of all infected shipments in the town, until Mr Kirk's division takes further action.
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Grey River Argus, 10 April 1911, Page 6
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