THE MEAT TRADE.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 357, 6 March 1902, Page 3

THE MEAT TRADE.

HOW FRAUDS ABE PRACTISED. [By Telegraph— Press Association.] Wellington, last night. Mr Cameron, Inspector of New Zealand Produce in London, in his monthly report to the Department of Agriculture states that on his representations a certain Engligh firm has agreed in future to with- , draw now season’s lamb from the pricelist at the beginning of October, as the . use of the term at the beginning of the year, when no season’s lamb had arrived, v. might be misleading. Reports of continued fraudulent sales of River Plato ■* nation as New Zealand are still reaching ■hmi. KO reports, from many sources. The practice is when an ordinary customer asks for New Zealand or Canterbury mutton, to supply River ? lat ° lE ”° close inquiry is made, but if the customer Is inquisitive, then to bring forward one Sew Zealand carcase kept in stock L for the purpose, probably asking such a ijk, hmh figure that no sale is made, and tho Xcw Zealand carcase is retained as a cloak for dishonesty. Although ho was : satisfied that the fraud was-being praetised, he was unable to get » case on which to secure a conviction. Mr Cameron considers tho present system of identifying meat totally inadequate, and parties he has conversed with on the ql subject are distinctly favorable to the adoption of a neat, clear, indelible brand for application to joints of tho carcases of New Zealand meat.