OUR BUTCHERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2427, 16 February 1909, Page 2

OUR BUTCHERS.

[To the Editor.] Sir, —I understand the Council has referred the riiatter of meat carts to the sanitary committee for their opinion as io which is the-more healthy, t-o have meat served from the carts or delivered in baskets. I think there are many reasons which could he brought forward to prove that from any standpoint the cart is unquestionably the best. One of the chief reasons is that the housewife has only to go once to the cart, and can get what she wants cut and weighed to her iiking. YVith the other method she has to answer the call for orders, and then a second call brings her out again to get what she sometimes lias not ordered, as people will make mistakes especially if they do not happen to have what is wanted. And then the meat has already received its proportion of dust in the shop as well as its share from tho various corners while it has beep hawked round in tho basket. I cannot help but think that the proposal lias conic from some discontented people in the trade, purely from interested motives, and not because they care the loss of a- button for the public health. I have lived here -eight years, and have always obtained satisfaction from the cart. There are from 7to 9in my house. The butcher’s cart is there every day, the doctor’s cart never, showing that we have not suffered m.uch from the former. I hope that the sanitary committee, if. it condemns anything, will condemn the basket. But I question if the Council lias any power to deal -with the matter.—l am, etc., “COLD SHOULDER.”