" The public have quite enough to pay, owing to the increased prices of commodities, without having further imposition of this sort," was the emphatic remark of Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M.. at the Christchurch Magistrate's Court the other day, when dealing with a milkman to whose milk the analyst had reported that. 25 per cent, water had been added. "A man who does this sort of thing cannot hopo for any leniency from me," continued Mr JJisliop'. "Tn fact, if the penalties I impose do not deter these men from the practice, then 1 will cause to bo advertised from time, to time a list of milkmen against whom convictions have linen recorded."
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Evening Star, Issue 16195, 17 August 1916, Page 2
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