GRADING CREAM

Evening Star, Issue 19615, 22 July 1927, Page 10

GRADING CREAM

BREACH OF REGULATIONS [Fkr United Press Association,] WOODVILLE, July 21. A decision of interest to the dairy industry was delivered by Mr S. L. Free, S.M., in tlio Woodville Court this morning. The case was one in which Joseph Wallace Smith, dairy inspector, took action against John Witton Swede, factory manager, for a branch of the new regulations made under the Dairy Act of 1908 in that he assigned to certain cream a grade other than its true grade. Smith contended that certain cream graded first should have been second. Swede argued that the inspectors’ grading had been done after the cream had been at the factory more than a. reasonable time, or three hours after the arrival of the cream. Smith gave evidence that twentythree factories in His district showed a percentage of second grade. The magistrate pointed out that it ivas reasonable that the defendant’s cream could not all have been first grade. That some of it was second grade was proved op the inspector’s visit to the factory. The defendant would be convicted and fined £l,' with costs and solicitor’s fee on each of ten charges. The magistrate added that the penalty was nominal, as it was the first prosecution under the new regulations.