FOOD SUPPLY DISCLOSURES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8179, 11 August 1906, Page 2

FOOD SUPPLY DISCLOSURES.

PIG-BREEDERS HEAVILY FINED. Per Press Association. AuoKiAKB, August 10. :^ Proceedings were taken against a number of pig-breeders at the Police Court to-day for feeding pigs upon unboiled offal, and for haying upon their premises for sale, pigs that were unfit (or human consumption. Several of the charges were admitted, but others were disputed, and the hearing of these, which revealed circumstances under which some of the pigs are reared in Auckland, lasted the greater part of the day. The case which oooupied the chief attention of the Court was that against J. R. Martin, of Western Springs, who was charged with feeding swine upon unboiled offal and with having upon his premises 19 swine that were unfit for human consumption. Martin was fined £SO, the maximum penalty, on the first oharge, and £lO on the second, and the Magistrate, !\fr R. W. Dyer, on the application of the Crown, ordered the whole of the pigs to be destroyed. A young man named Norman Austin, a big breeder at Penrose, was also fined for the same offence, but though cirenmstances in his case were described as worse than in the other, he was let off with a lighter penalty on account of his youth and small means.

A oharge of feeding pigs upon unboiled offal was also preferred against Daniel Keihcm, of Onehunga, but in riew of the fact that the oase was not a flagrant one a small fine of Ll only was imposed. Neilson was also charged with "Wowing" or "spout* ing" two carcases of veal, and for this Jt" he was fined L 5 and owts. '