"AWAKE, NEW PLYMOUTH!"

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 177, 25 January 1912, Page 4

"AWAKE, NEW PLYMOUTH!"

To the Editor. Sir^ —Mr. "White Paper," in your "News," is a lot too mild,about t,he butchers in .New_ Plymouth. He ought ,to . , goi about itaci'lee i&a*ml ; Slit#*-';? of _ their shops, their carts and other in the. trade. . are disgraceful, and dirty—grease and ,black all ovi r The horse dir.fc off the dirty, streets blows. all over ■■the"meat ■ pjid nobody kicks up a row.' They sling anything they like at you at big prices, because New Plymouth people don't "buck."*' They are very slow. I never saw such dirty meat carts and milk | carts anywhere else. We have had it | drilled into us that "cleanliness is next 1 to Godliness," and we are supposed to have a Health Department with a nose like a bloodhound. It must be muzzled. I wouldn't have half the meat out of the hands of the men that drive the ; carts, as it isn't clean for them to handle horses and greasy reins and meat, too. Most of the meat shops are open all day to the dust. I see that some of them shut them up at night so that no air can . get in. We let tradesmen do what they like with our health and charge us big prices for making us ill. I went to a butcher's shop on Monday and the butcher wrapped a lady's meat up in clean white paper, but he put mine in a lump of newspaper, all over flyspecks. I never took it and I advise everybody to boycott dirty butchers. The New Plymouth doctors have got public spirit, for i see „ they went to look at the schools free and.they also judge at baby shows. If the butchers of the town would invite the doctors to examine their shops the fetors/would be vegetarians for ever. Hoping that your paper will keep on at these things in New Plymouth,—l am, et«. WORKING MAN.