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great responsibility. These all concurred in
that opinion, as also did a number of persons
engaged in the meat trade who had examined
the sheep.
I have been informed that the owner gave no
directions to his Agents for this lot of sheep to
be shipped from Queensland, intending them
only to be slaughtered and boiled down in that
place.
If this be true the shipment must have been
made in error. To verify this statement it would
occupy considerable time.
I have since ascertained that some of the
Australian Governments have determined that,
in future, no frozen meat shall leave the Colonies
without proper inspection at the port of shipment,
and that meat passing this supervision shall be
marked.