"MEAT ON PLATFORMS EXPOSED TO FLIES"
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WHEN the Lachbroom Agricultural VI' Co., Ltd., applied to carry "mcf_t from Invergordon slaughterhouse south to Dingwall and Ipverness and north to towns in Sutherland and Caithness last week, a sheep farmer said of railway meat-transport services: "I have seen meat lying on platforrns with its hessian covering torn and flies hovering near the exposed parts."
Col.' R. Grant, who owns butchers' shops in Dornoch and Golspie, said that when the applicants carried meat. it was loaded into hygienic aluminium .containers at the slaughterhouse arid unloaded at the shop. By rail, the meat had to be wrapped in canvas and handled probably six times in transit. The applicants sent a qualified butcher with their delivery vehicles to ensure that meat was expertly handled.
British Road Services and the railways objected. The Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority granted that part of the application concerned with services to the north of Invergordon, but refusedthat dealing with journeys to the south.