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Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1926, Page 4

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£5,000 “TUCK” SHOP

LONDON, December J

A palatial “ sock ” (or “ tuck I”) shop to cost about £5.000, is to be built at Eton. The Eton School Stores have acquired the leases of all the buildings from Wright’s to Ramespool Bridge, each with its own backyard and strip of garden. The new building will really be an extension of Rowland’s, the “sock” shop in High-street, and when completed will provide a very fine restaurant for Etonians and their people. There will be a flat roof, which will be available on fine days in the summer. It is expected that the work will be completed by the beginning of next summer half. A BABY’S DEATH. WOMAN BARRISTER’S PLEA SUCCEEDS. LONDON, Dee. S. Ida Dunn, a 24-years-ohl factory worker, was found not guilty at Leeds Assizes of the manslaughter of her newly born child and discharged. Miss Horsman, a barrister, who defended. said that no woman could tell when an expected child would lie born, anil nobody could say that when the child was horn Dunn could tell that it was actually living. foreign meat. A SWINDLE SELDOM DETECTED. LONDON, Dec. 8. Although many housewives feel certain that foreign meat lias often heed sold to them as English, remarkably few prosecutions of butchers lor this offence have taken place.

The Ministry of Health seems to be satisfied that the regulations making it an offence to describe foreign maat as English are being observed by all butchers. Food and Drug inspectors, whose duty it is to sae that foreign meat is properly labelled, know different. however. These inspectors are awaiting with interest for flic prosecution that a housewife, who believes she was sold a foreign joint as English, intends to take against her butcher. One of the inspectors whose duty it is to take action in these cases said to a reporter yesterday: “f am certain that many butchers are on occasions deliberately supplying foreign meat as English. Ibis happens most often when the meat is delivered by boy to the cock at the back door or tradesman’s entrance. The housewife is very discerning cod verv ready to remove her custom, but cooks are' more likely to accept the joint without complaint. Food inspectors are required to take up eases whore foreign meat or foreign eggs are sold as English. That they do not do so is due to the impossibility ol getting a conviction. Counsel can produce in court two eggs or two joints and say to the inspector: “One of these is foreign and one English-—can you toll which is which?” The toreign meat may have been killed in Holland 21 hours before and the English meat mav b* days old. The eggs bath look alike, and even tests as to texture of shell and smoothness may fail. The inspectors know they run a danger of being laughed at.” . A food expert said that colour is the best help' towards deciding origin of meat. Frozen or chilled meat is usually paler in the sense that it has lost Lhe “bloom” of fresh killed. When this meat has been frozen the red corpuscles of the blood get absorbed by the fat. and you get the condition of which housewives sav that “the colour has To cm pa re foreign joints with home-killed as frequently as possible is the best- help. Some of the best imported, however, is so much like home-killed in appearance and taste tbiiL it might defy experts.