GLASSES & CROCKERY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 June 1938, Page 2

GLASSES & CROCKERY

UNSATISFACTORY WASHING ARRANGEMENTS. RACE DAY CATERER FINED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 8. Health Department inspectors had met with opposition in their work and in some cases had been refused admission to racecourses, despite the fact that they produced their warrants, said Mr Pargeter, a senior inspector, in the Magistrate’s Court this morning. The case was one in which Edward A. Rattray, manager for P. Burke and Company, was fined £2 for failing to provide an adequate supply of clean hot water for washing glasses and crockery at the Cheviot Racecourse on March 19.

Mr Pargeter said the glasses in the bar were washed in kerosene tins, and crockery in the dining room in large iron baths. “Some hundreds of men and women were drinking at the bar, and it seems disgusting that glasses were washed not in water, but in a beery slush.” Counsel emphasised that there was a lack of conveniences at the Cheviot Racecourse. In view of that fact, it was quite impossible to cope with large crowds.