PURITY OF MILK
"The greatest importance must be attached to the purity of foods, particularly of young people, but the circumstances of this case justify only a nominal fine," said Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today, when imposing a fine of 10s and the cost of an analyst's certificate, 10s 6d, upon Frank William Lucas, a dairyman, upon a charge of selling millrwithout full cream content. Semor-Sergeant Dempsey prosecuted. Evidence was given by Inspector F. W. Eiawlinson that on August 24 he had purchased some milk at the defendant's dairy, the milk being taken from an open 2£-gallon enamel bucket, lie had verified the facts- and had found that the milk was the bottom half of a five-gallon can purchased from the Wellington Municipal Milk Department. The other half had been tested at another dairy and had been found to have more than the necessary cream content. ."'. Mr. Mosley: Surely the municipality trusts its officers to use a stirer.
Witness: Possibly he did not use it in this case. Mr. Mosley: There is more than a possibility. The inspector said that he' could vouch lor the honesty-of the defendant
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 99, 23 October 1936, Page 3
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193PURITY OF MILK Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 99, 23 October 1936, Page 3
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