FILTHY CONDITION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 43, 21 February 1927, Page 10

FILTHY CONDITION.

SEASIDE ICE CREAM SHOP. -YOU'TE COME AT THE WBONG TIME.'' HEAVY FINE IMPOSED. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.! WANGANTI, this day. Filthy conditions at an ice-cream shop at Castlecliff were described to the magistrate, Mr. Barton, at the Police Court to-day by Inspector Fear, when Wilfred D. Dixon was charged with a breach of the Food regulations Act. In the room where the ice-cream ehurn was located the inspector found empty sacks., sacks oi potatoes, rotten potatoes, wheat and other material scattered about. The place, he said, was undoubted'v dirty. There was a full churn col. lining one gallon of ice-cream. The yard was full of empty boxes and tins, with dirty water and other rubbish in them. Four or five empty cream tins in the yard were dirty, and Lad stale cream caked to the bottom and sides. The yard drain was wet and slushy. It was the practice of this dirty manufacturer to Stand at the door and throw everything out. Sour Miik Left About. Referring once more to the ice-cream room, the inspector said it was in a filthy state. The wooden churn was dirty, and the iron work was rusty and thick with filth. He was certain it had not been cleaned for a long time. The walls were dirty, and the concrete floor "was thick with muck. A large can in which the ice-cream was made had about half a gallon of sour cream in the bottom, and a one-gallon Can contained rotten cream. Another can also contained semi-sour milk, and this also was in a dirty state. There were two sodden sacks on the floor, and defendant threw them out at the time of the inspection. Also in the ice-cream room were a tin of fat, gome cases of eggs, and a bowl with four or five pounds of butter. The butter was covered with dirt. The inspector said he picked up a dirty wooden spoon out of the filth on the floor. This had been used in the manufacture of ice-cream. The butter was kept in the ice-cream room to cool, and when required was sent into the tea rooms in the shop. Not his First Offence. When defendant saw the inspector, he remarked: "You have come at the wrong time.'* The inspector replied that he had come at the right time. Defendant was very excited, and said he had made ice-cream on Sunday night, and as he did not have any hot water he left the cleaning up till* Monday morning. He was called to town, and consequently the promised clean-up did not take place. Defendant had been fined £5 for a similar offence in 1924. Since being served with the summons, he had assigned his estate and left for Australia. He wrote to the inspector that he could not face another prosecution. The magistrate said it was a serious case, and a serious menace to children eating ice-cream. It would be necessary to make it a serious warning to other vendors. He fined defendant £15, with costs 10/. x !