CABLE NEWS. WATER-LOGGED BUTTER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 11 April 1910, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

WATER-LOGGED BUTTER.

[)BY XIiBOIBIO TEIiEQBAPH. — OOPYBIGHT.J

VICTORIAN ARTICLE GIVES

TROUBLE.

IMPORTING COMPANY FINED.

LPBESS ASSOCIATION.]

LONDON, April 9.

The Commissioner of Customs has prosecuted the Ellis Kislingbury Company for importing per Omrah 33cwt of Victorian butter containing 18.2 per cent of water.

Defendants pleaded that the Government certificate did not mention an excess of water. They regarded the certificates as practically a Government guarantee. The Magistrate, in imposing a fine ot 40s, said: "The people who inspected the butjter before shipment ought to be before me I"