SHORTAGE OF WATER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 235, 3 October 1936, Page 22

SHORTAGE OF WATER.

POSITION OF DAIRIES. ATTITUDE IN CHRISTCHURCH. (From Our Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. The Christchurch City Council recently protested against the amendment to the health regulation's prohibiting the storing of water in dairies on the ground that its enforcement would be impossible as well as contrary to the interests of the consumer. Following the receipt of a reply by the Health Department to this protest, the by-laws committee of the council has instructed the inspector to take no steps to enforce the regulation, which reads as under: — ■ No person shall keep or store in the same room or part of any premises where milk is kept or stored for sale any water or stale milk or any other fluid capable of being used for diluting or mixing with milk. The Health Department stated that although it might appear that the keeping of milk cans in ice or in troughs of water was prohibited there were cases in which reasonable discretion might be exercised. f : The chairman of the council by-laws committee, Mr. E. H. Andrews, said that it seemed ridiculous to make such a regulation and then allow part of it to be applied with discretion.