MEAT UNDER GLASS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 418, 29 November 1911, Page 7

MEAT UNDER GLASS.

MORE CARE NEEDED IN BUTCHERS' SHOPS. Mr H. C. Cameron, New Zealand Government Produce Commissioner in Great Birtain, speaking at the conferonce of the Sanitary Inspectors' Association at Fishmongers' Ilall, Lodnon Bridge, declared that for year:? New Zealand had done its utmost to ensure the perfect purity of its meat products, and that on arrival here It tie faiuit could be found with the quality or condition of what was offered for consumption.

The methods of distribution in this country were, however, capable of considerable improvement. Had he his way with the retail handling of meat, he oald make it compulsory that none should be sold unless kept under the most cleanly condition in shops, protected by glass from the contamination of the streets, and with good ventilation. It was a grievance with many who were connected with New Zealand that the finest, of their mutton and lamb was sold as English meat, and that carcasses of inferior quality from other parts as of the world were substituted and sold as the New Zealand article. In that way. while consumers in this country were defrauded, the New Zealand producers suffered.

Mr Martin, of Bucrslem, tolu a story of a young housewife who, when purcahsnig frozen meat, aksed the butcher how long its had been killed. The butcher regretted lie could not tell her, but the young woman caught sight of the label on the meat on which was inscribed "BC.. 696." "Oh, dear," she exclaimed, "no more