POTATOES CONDEMNED.
NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night. On Saturday morning Mr 'F. B. Gardiner, District Healtli Officer, paid a visit to the railway goods shed, auction marts, and stores, where the potatoes, which recently arrived from the South, are lying. After inspecting them he prohibited the sale of all, which, he said, are unfit for human consumption. Beyond this he could not go. A Health Inspector may prohibit the sale o. food unfit for human consumption, but cannot- prevent diseased potatoes being sold for pig food), and so spreading the disease, nor can he prevent diseased;tubers being picked out and the remainder sold. The orchards,. garden's, and apiaries branch of the Agricultural Department also took action, as a result of which the local Stock Inspector (Mr Munro) took formal possession of aJI the infected shipments in the town, until Mr Kirk's division takes further action..
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10209, 10 April 1911, Page 5
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144POTATOES CONDEMNED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10209, 10 April 1911, Page 5
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