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calculate the number of clients a solicitor
could see in a day, since one may take five
minutes, but the next two hours. The variation
in the daily supply of meat serves to illustrate
this; thus at the time of writing the returns
posted in the Central Markets for the past
week shew:—
Monday 1,512 tons. Thursday 1,268 tons
Tuesday 956 ,, Friday 2,307 ,,
Wednesday 999 ,, Saturday 483 ,,
The average is 1,254 tons; yet we learn from the
above that on only one day (Thursday) was the
supply anything like the average for the week.
PROSECUTIONS AGAINST SENDERS OF
BAD MEAT.
There have been no less than 17 prosecutions
instituted against senders of bad meat during
the year, a conviction being obtained in 16
cases. In one the defendant was sent for three
months' hard labour, without the option of a
fine; in the other 15 fines amounting to £335,
exclusive of costs, were inflicted; the defendant,
however, in three instances, accepted the
alternative of imprisonment, which reduces
the amount of fines recovered to £205.