ADULTERATION OF FOOD.
[BY TELEOIUPH. —PRIiSS ASSOCIATION.] Invercargill, Thursday. > At the Police Court, to day, the hearing of the charges of adulteration was resumed. In the case of Wardell, charged with selling adulterated cream of tartar, a decision of Mr. Justice Hawkins was produced, ruling that cream of tartar was not an article of food, and the case was dismissed, A rehearing was granted in the case in which Larking, a South Dunedin grocer, had been fined, and the information was amended by substituting'" drug " for " article of food." John Wardell and Mercer Brothers were then fined 403 and costs for selling adulterated white pepper. Evidence was given by Wardell that he had received a guarantee as to the purity of the article.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9490, 20 April 1894, Page 5
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