DEFICIENT MILK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1928, Page 7

DEFICIENT MILK.

DAIRYMAN FINED £o

Had not Edwin Wood®, an Oiahuhu dairyman, been so particular on a rent rainy day, probably he would ni' ha\e been fined £.3. at tne Police Co'-rt !>» morning for selling milk lc-s than 3} per cent of milk fats.

Mr. G. P. Einlay, who appeared for Woods, said that when the Health Inspector took a sample from W.i .ds' m'lk float it was 7.50 a.m.. ju-t about the time that defendant had con l:id°d his rounds. The milk taken a> a *o:n;>k» was the residue of on.i can. Thi« as not being sold, but was b»in™ t.<ken "o a dairy factory. Tnore iva- no s-igj. l "- tion of added water. The defi •'emy was only -To per cent. On the day <n question it was raining hard :md \V- .- did not remove the lid o. the can to use the ajritator le«t sivve »*a:er find it« way in. The cr-'a -i. .>r tKk milk always remained v :he t >r> of '.he can. but when the can wa< n.-M' v e ::;ry tne milk was always t '.i::uic. . stirred with the agitator.