NOT UP TO STANDARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20156, 17 January 1929, Page 14

NOT UP TO STANDARD.

MILK AND ICE-CREAM. FOUR PERSONS FINED. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN* CORRESPONDENT.] PUKEKOHE, Wednesday. Two milk vendors at Mercer, V. A. Collins 2nd Thomas Wright, were charged in the Pukekohe Magistrate's Court today with selling milk not complying with the standard specified by law. Collins pleaded guilty and Wright pleaded not guilty.

Thomas C. Thompson, inspector of health, said he took a sample of milk from Collins' supply. On analysis it proved to have a butter-fat test lower than the minimum' specified by the law, which was 3.25 per cent. There was no evidence of adulteration, and it appeared to he a case of defendant's cows giving poor quality milk. Collins was fined £3 and costs, £1 Os 9d.

The inspector said a sample taken from iWright's supply also gave a lower test than the minimum. Wright said he sold only about three fallons of milk that day. It, must have een from a low-testing cow. Accused was fined £4 and costs, £1 Os 9d. Two icecream vendors at Pukekohe, John Aitken and Florence Armstrong, ■were each fined £2 and costs, £1 Is 6d, for selling, ice cream under standard. Inspector Thompson said samples taken at defendants' shops on November 29 proved to contain less than the 10 per cent, of milk-fat required by law. Mr. F. A. Hosking, who appeared for Mrs. Armstrong, said the ice-cream vendors were in the hands of those who sold them the, milk for making the ice cream.