NEW REGULATION FOR DAIRIES

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21904, 3 October 1936, Page 14

NEW REGULATION FOR DAIRIES

NO ENFORCEMENT 1 ?! aTYGOUNCH^I PROHIBITION ON WATER *

protest to departmh| ■U of health .n ' . „ / v'

No action is to be taken by. Chief City Inspector (Mr J. W,.l| gins) in enforcing a recent mdnt to the health regulations j hibiting the storing oi wafia| dairies. This amendment was p lished in the New Zealand Ga» about two months go, but it drfi protest from the Christchurch ( Council on the ground -that itsIdrcement would be impossible;! well as directly contrary to the terests of the consumer. The YS of the Health Department in V lington to this protest has bee* ceived by thfe by-laws commits* the council, and thecommittee; instructed Mr Huggins to steps to enforce the regulation. Tfc will, however, be the custom supervision to ensure that mfli not adulterated.

The regulation reads as foQomg No person shall keep on -m in the same room or part of premises where milk is ■ *c®Py . stored for sale any water or s(J milk or any other fluid capable being used for diluting or mix| with milk. / , V J In its protest to the Health $ partment, the City Council M that'a number of dairymen Inc milk cool by storing it m a although ice was not a fluid quite capable of diluting nfl Moreover, dairymen had construct their dairies ih such a mannerJa artesian water was constantly m ing through a trough in which'ca of were stored over-night; a to prohibit these practices wet not only mean alterations to lieeruj dairies, but would be directly posed to the interests of the sumer. To this the Health Deparhni has replied that although. it; mij appear that the keeping of milkcS in ice or in troughs of water a prohibited, these were casesJ which reasonable discretion mlj be exercised. “The troughs ars convenient and method of keeping the milk cool; a if they are removed, the milk vend if he desires to adulterate his ml still, has ample facilities for dm so,” the letter reads. “On the ot| hand, the keeping 1 of water Ih licensed milk- shop will not bej any obvipusly legitimate purp| and should be prohibited. 1 * _ The chairman of’the council's .1 laws committee (Cr.-K H. Andrew said yesterday that it seemed rupj Tousto make sudv~a regulation f then allow part of it to be appl with discretion. - It appeared-,!) the last sentence Of the depar6rte| letter referred to water not kept troughs, and that therefore it, | illegal to have water in a cept in a trough. Thus a dairy not have water for washing ' j» poses. The whole regulation: ii obviously incapable of fair appJii tion, and his committee did Itot ps pose the city inspector; see that it was enforced, except; cases where water was being -ig illegally. .. Jf|