DELIVERY OF MILK.
CAN LEFT ON FOOTPATH. "PRACTICE MUST BE STOPPED." f J3Y TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. 1 WANGANUI, Monday. A Wanganui milk vendor was charged in tho Magistrate's Court to-day with failing to take stops to prevent milk from being contaminated. Tho milk was being delivered by a boy employee, who left a. can with the lid tightly closed on tho footpath until ho served a customer with a billy. In the interval a dog came along and licked tho edge of tho lid.
Mr. Bi'odie, for the defence, submitted it was a common practice allowed in the Dominion to leave cans on paths and also at certain dumps for the deliverers to pick up. The magistrate, Mr. J. H. Salmon, said it' was a most undesirable practice and must be stopped. . The saliva of a dog licking a tin might contain germs of hydatids, and the milk might ultimately be contaminated. As the case was brought as a warning, defendant was convicted without a penalty being imposed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20930, 21 July 1931, Page 10
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