RETAILING OF MEAT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5395, 4 March 1929, Page 2

RETAILING OF MEAT.

MISREPRESENTATION IN ENGLAND BUTCHERS CONVICTED. A few months ago a Press Association cable from London announced that the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board had! successfully prosecuted, a butcher at Ashton-, under-Ljme for selling spiuth American .meat as New Zealand. From information suplied to the board.' by its London ma'nagqr, the facts of this case are that a representative of the board was supplied with Chilian lamb in place of the New Zealand meat for whic.h he asked. In lining the defendant £l3 13s c.osts, the Magistrate issued a warning that in shopkeepers, and especially butchers, should be careful to, serve exactly what they were asked! for. Fallowing, upon this sucessful prosecution, the board is now infoivned by cable from its London manager that he has secured a conviction of a butcher firm in Plymouth, for* the same bffqnce. The fine on this occasion was £5, with £lO costs.

The board , thr.ougii its London manager, has for some time past been keeping a vigilant look-out for this kind of. misrepresentation, and has in-, vestigated many cases of the wrongful retailing of infeijor meat, as “New Zealand,” but it has gqnerally found upon investigation, that it was impossible to obtain sufficient evidence to warrant a prosecution. It is therefore very pleasing to note that both of the above prosecutions have bqen sucessful.