MILK AND CREAM

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 89, 9 January 1926, Page 8

MILK AND CREAM

AMENDING REGULATIONS Amending regulations governing the sale of milk and cream were gazetted last night. “No person or company (it is provided) shall sell or offer for sale for human consumption any milk or cream other than that obtained from a registered dairy, but this provision shall not apply to any milk or cream sold or offered for sale for the manufacture of condensed milk, dried milk, butter, or cheese, or sold or offered for sale in the form of condensed milk, dried milk, butter, or cheese. Tn any proceeding for breach of regulation the onus of proof that such milk or cream was not milk or cream other than that obtained from a registered dairy shall be upon the person or company charged. If it be proved in any such proceeding “that any" person or company carrying on the trade of purveyor of milk has during any period sold for human consumption 'milk or cream in excess of the quantities thereof proved to be obtained during that period by such person or company from registered dairies or in the possession of such person or company at the commencement of the period, such proof shall be prima facie evidence of a breach ... of the provisions of this regulation, notwithstanding that no evidence may be tendered of any specific sale of milk or cream other than that obtained from a registered dairy.”