WATER IN THE MILK.
FINE OF SIX POUNDS IMPOSED,
Despite the heavy penalties being imposed by •magistrates, cases of milk adulteration) continue to come before the Court. Yesterday, before Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., Henry Hull, a milk vendor, pleaded guilty to two charges of having sold milk which contained more water' than is permitted under the Sale of Foods and Drugs Act. The defendant stated, in explanation, that the milk which was found to • contain the greater percentage of water, some seven, per cent., was that which he had purchased from another man. His own milk was found to contain a lees proportion of water. The magistrate, who remarked that the analysis of the defendant's own milk occasioned a suspicion of skimming, as well as of diluting, imposed a fine of £6, with 15s costs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15142, 5 November 1912, Page 5
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