DAIRY INDUSTRY ACT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 89, 8 January 1908, Page 9

DAIRY INDUSTRY ACT.

$ . CITRISTCHURCII CASES. REMARKS BY THE MAGISTRATE. (BY TELEGRAPH—MESS ASSOCIATION.) Christchurcfl, January 7. Two dairymen appeared before Mr. 11. W. Bishop, S.M., at the Polico Court this morning, each charged with two breaches of tho Dairy Industry Act, 189 S. One man was fined 20s. for selling impure mill: and n further 20s. for using unclean milk-cans, and the other was also lined '10s. on charges of failing to cool inilk for human consumption and milking cows in sheds, which were not kept in a clean condition, as specified by tho Act. During tho hoaring of tho cases the Dairy Inspector, in answer to questions by tho Magistrate, stated that he had 600 sheds to inspect, and ho had one assistant. In connection with tho last case, it was probably four months sinco his previous visit. The Magistrate: " A placo might got mighty bad in four months." Continuing, Mr. Bishop remarked that tho regulations of tho Act would have to bo complied with by dairymen. Broaches of the Act di.l not very often come before the Court, and tho natural inferonco was that tho dairymen were satisfactorily fulfilling tho requirements of tho Act. It was absolutely essential for tho protection of tho public that tho milk supply was kept pure, and when any future charges of selling impure milk camo before him, and ho was satisfied that such milk was a menace to tho health of tho community, ho would deem it his duty to inflict • t a vory sovero penalty.