A DIRTY PRACTICE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81915, 9 January 1907, Page 2

A DIRTY PRACTICE.

To the Editor. Kir,—You turned your searchlight on tin; meat trade the other week. Due aspect not illuminated was that in regard to the paper in which butchers wrap up ihi-ir meat. On .Monday a local liutchcr sent me a joint wrapped up in a soiled, yellowy slic.'t that must have been Wowing about soniebodys backyard for the past month or two. lis condition- was really disgraceful. Xow, this should not be. In the interests of health, butchers should not be allowed to wrap up their goods in paper that is unclean and unwholesome, 'f'ho practice with many of our tradesmen, and particularly butchers, is to buy waste paper from children who make a habit of collecting nil the -disused papers in their homes, by this means raising for themselves 41 few pennies 11 month. Jt seems to be nobody's concern that these- papers should bo clean. In most houses, paper being passed and thrown around are almost invariably soiled. .Some might come out of homes full of consumption. To papers direct from the printing o lUee one cannot take the same exception, though 1 believe that it should be made Compulsory for all butchers to use the clean, while imprinted sheet. In some places by-laws prohibit the use of any paper but this, and I trust our civic fathers or the health o^. r , will look into the matter and see if something cannot be done, to remedy a practice so ll'thy. u»d so likely to disseminate, disease.—l am, e>. 'ANTt-Jl'lltT.