1888 Feb. 507/1 At every shipping point..stock inspectors..jealously examine all the brands on the live animals or on the hides of the slaughtered ones.
1930 L. G. D. Acland 1st Ser. iii. 47 He then became Stock Inspector in the North Island, but quarrelled with his superiors.
1948 V. Palmer ii. 15 He might have been a country teacher or a stock-inspector.