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I have no hesitation in advising that they
should not be allowed to pass out of the
jurisdiction of the Port Sanitary Authority, if
there is any reason to doubt their soundness, and
should by any accident the transit of such goods
escape the vigilance of the Port officers, the
Medical Officer of Health of the district into
which they may have been conveyed should be
notified of their removal, and requested to have
them examined at the place where they are
offered for sale. In some consignments we have
dealt with at the Central Markets the proportion
of bad or doubtful rabbits examined has been
20 per cent.
The "wasted" Australian sheep referred to in
last Annual Report came this year in still greater
numbers (see my monthly printed Reports, Nos. 20
and 21); many were condemned; some of them,
though not absolutely injurious as food, were
almost destitute of nutritive property, and are
regarded by many shippers as tending to injure
the trade by furnishing some justification for the
idea so prevalent in some minds that "all frozen
meat is rubbish." The practice of keeping meat