BLUFF OYSTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1929, Page 1

BLUFF OYSTERS

ALLEGED LIDEL. <Bv Telegraph—Press Association). INVERCARGILL, Oct. 16. A strong denial that oysters, as they left the beds at Bluff, were responsible for the outbreak of typhoid fever in the north, was voiced by a local fish and oyster merchant. “In my opinion the suggestion is all bunkum” the dealer said. “The trouble might have been caused by oad water or drinks, or fruit, or bad sanitation. I probably eat as many oysters as anyone in the world. I eat two or -three dozen eVerv day on the average, and I’ve never felt the least ,md effects.” The same dealer said that if oysters bad actually been the cause of, the outbreak, it was not through infection received here, but through lack of care by dealers or housewives.” “There should be softie regulation to limit the sale of oysters to proper fish merehats. Why at present, even fruit shops stock them.” he said. “Then housewives often keep them for a week and expect them to remain good.” He strenuously denied that they could receive infection in Bluff. After being trawled from Foveaux strait they were kept on bed- ft 1 oyster wharf in Bluff “in good salt water.”