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We still adhere to the practice of assisting the retailers to get the money
returned if the articles of food on arriving in this district are found, on
examination, to be found unfit for human food. This prevents, to a large
extent, food of such a nature being exposed for sale.
In connection with meat and other foods, New Zealand, especially the City
of Auckland, set us a good example. Not only must a licence be obtained from
the City Authorities before the premises can be used for the sale or preparation
of meat for human food, but the person occupying the shop must also be
licensed, and the licences must be renewed in the month of January in each
year. Most stringent by-laws and regulations are in force there, and these
provide for the cleanliness and health of persons handling food stuffs; the
protection of food from vermin, flies and dust; and the suitability of premises
used in connection with the sale, manufacture, preparation, storage and packing
of food for sale. They also provide for the protection of meat, etc., in course
of conveyance to shops or delivery to customers. They further provide that
every person who engages in the manufacture, preparation, storage, packing,
carriage or delivery of food for sale within the city, shall (when so engaged)
maintain his clothing and his body clean. No person may use any animal,
vehicle or receptacle in the carriage or delivery of any food within the city
unless he at all times keeps the same clean; nor may he use any such vehicle
or receptacle which at any time may have been used for the carriage of any
matter whereby the wholesomeness, cleanliness and freedom from contamination
of any food carried, or usually carried therein, would be endangered. Further,
every person who sells within the city any meat or fish or any food which is
ordinarily consumed in the state in which it is sold, shall protect such food,
until it is delivered to a purchaser, from dust and flies, by storage in covered
receptacles, by covering with gauze, or other effectual means; no vendor may
carry such food through the streets until it is protected aforesaid, and no person
may sell any food within the city so packed that it can come into contact with
paper or other material which is not clean. Also the whole of the external