MEAT INSPECTION

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1929, Page 5

MEAT INSPECTION

MR YOUNG’S REPORT. (United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright J . ' (Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) ' - LONDON,- August 8. Lieut. Colonel Dunlop Young’s report on the inspection and exportation of meat from Australia and New Zealand, contains recommendations whereto he suggests a meeting in 'the hope it may prove of some value to those concerned, and that Australian meat, especially lamb, may obtain as good a reputation at Smithfield as New Zer land lamb.

Young is the veterinary officer at &' jdthfield who visited Australia last ye'ar at the invitation of the Commonwealth Government. He also went to New'Zealand.

Young suggests the establishment of

ah ariimal bureau of industry on the

same 1 lines as the United States, tobblr 1 ! be of incalculable benefit. ■ He Advises station owners and cattle breeders to breed from; hornless bulls, selected for

beef production, in order to get rid of horns, and to producee smaller cattle weighing. 560 to 720 pounds, with

smaller bones and meat and fat uniformly distributed over the body, not patchy but preferably ” the heaviest hindquarters, Wherefore the highest price is obtained.

Cattle shotild be marketed as young as possible. He recommends the Government to prevent the use of scrub bulls, but to import selected bulls of hornless breed and sell them at cos +J price to station owners, who are unable to import them. For public abattoirs to provide funds for veterinary research into , animal diseases, especially those presently -financially affecting the meat industry.

Young adds that in New Zealand grading has been well done and is reli-able-‘and the system should be maintained.

Breeders should' from time to time consult salesmen at Smithfield and the meat boards expert as to the best type of lamb and sheep carcase desired by the retail butcher, who is the deciding factor. '*

Regarding the meat inspection, the weakest points in New Zealand’s otherwise good system appears to be too few inspectors, considering the number of carcases to be examined. Ante-mortem inspection appears chiefly to be carried out by lay inspectors. Such work should only be done by efficient veterinary officers. Plucks should left in the carcases till the inspector haS ex " amined.