UNUSUAL PROSECUTION

Evening Star, Issue 22559, 29 January 1937, Page 10

UNUSUAL PROSECUTION

DAIRY FACTORY CHARGED manager without gertificateThe first case of its type in Now Zealand. involving a breach of the Dairy Industry Act. and brought by the Agricultural Department for the purpose of acquainting dairy factories with the necessity for observing the law, was heard in the Police Court to-day. The Omimi Dairy Factory Company was charged with employing Morris Raymond Gale as a dairy factory manager when he did not possess the necessary certificate to act. in that capacity. Gale was also charged in respect of the same offence. Both defendants pleaded guilty. Mr D. Taylor, who appeared on behalf of the Agricultural Department, informed the court that the breach was laid under the Dairy Industry Act, which required all factories to be registered. 'Phis case had been brought at the instigation of the Dairy Board to acquaint factories that the law had to he enforced. The defendant company had committed a breach by appointing Mr Gale as a dairy faciory manager when he did not have a certificate. When approached about the offence, ho had been nominally suspended, hut had later satisfied the requirements of the certificate without any difficulty. “ The department flees not press for a heavy penalty,” said Mr Taylor. The directors of the, company wore naturally under ihe Impression when the appointment was made that Mr Gale had a certificate. Tt was found that a dairy factory manager could carry on for 30 days before getting a certificate, and in this ease Air Gale had actually been in his position for 38 days. “ I think these proceedings will serve to bring before dairy factories the necessity for their managers not acting until they have obtained their certificates,” commented ihc magistrate (Mr H. W. Bundle. S.M.). “The matter might be met by each defendant paying court costs HOs).