MEAT DESTROYED.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 April 1920, Page 5

MEAT DESTROYED.

A* STATEMENT RESENTED. By Telegraph.—Pre". Association. ' Invercargill, April 19. With reference to the Hamilton message stating that Major Whyte alleged at a meeting of the Farmers' Union that frozen meat and rabbits had been shifted to sea from a certain freezing works south of Dunedin and thrown overboard, the allegation is denied on behalf of the Southland companies. The sub-manager of the Southland Frozen Meat Company, controlling the Bluff, Makarewa, and Mataura works, gave an emphatic denial, and said the statement was a surprise to him, and he could not think there was any truth in it. A representative of Messrs. J. G. Ward and Co. was equally emphatic, and said the produce mentioned was certainly not shipped from the Ocean Beach works. Dunedin, Last Night. The statement made by Major Whyte at a meeting of the Farmers' Union at Hamilton, that he had been informed that large quantities of frozen mutton, etc., had been shipped out to sea frcm a certain freezing works south of Dunedin and thrown overboard, seems to have no foundation in fact. Probably the story of the incident which occurred some three years ago, when a quantity of frozen rabbits, which were being transferred from a freezing works to an overseas ship were found to be tainted and had to be carried out to sea and dumped overboard, has been revived and magnified to suit someone's imagina- | tion.