CITY MILK SUPPLY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9783, 5 October 1917, Page 9

CITY MILK SUPPLY

RECENT PROSECUTIONS -THE ODDNCIL CONSIDERS THE OASES. The public health committee reported at last night’s meeting of the City, Council that it had, called upon the following milk vendors -to attend tho council meeting to show cause why their licenses should not . be dealt with on account of prosecutions for breaches of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act iSfavely and Wright (10 per cent, added water). fined A2oi A. St. Remain (added water), fined J 615; A- J. Slack (added water), fined JJIS; E. J. Parker (low milk fat), £5; Parker and Yeats (low milk fat), fined jES. It was stated that one license© who was prosecuted for selling milk containing added water had appealed against the magistrate’s decision and consequently , until the appeal wa« decided, no action could be taken by. tbe council. The committee reported that it bad been waited on by a deputation representing the dairy farmers who supply milk from Miramar, Island Bay, Karorc, Wadestown. Khandallah, and Johnsonville asking to be exempted from bringing their milk into the municipal clearing house for inspection. The deputation said that most of tho suburban 'dairy farmers retailed their milk in the Kelburn. Northland, Wadestown, Island Bay and Maranui districts and they objected to bringing the milk into the city and then having to take it ©ut again to the suburbs. The question had oeen referred to toe city solicitor for a report on the request and also for a clear inten?relation of the Wellington City Milk Supply Act, 1910. and the amendments of 19X1 and 1914. Upon receipt of their reports the committee would submit a further report £o the council. Representatives of tho Wellington Dairy Farmers’ Co-operative Association. Limited, waited on the committee for the purpose of obtaining an assurance that all milk going into tho city would pass through the municipal milk clearing hopso with the exception of milk specially exempt bv the Wellington City Milk Supply Act. The association also asked for permission for one of their employees to remain at the clearing house each day for the purpose of apportioning a parcel of milk (usually about 460 to 500 gallons daily), sent into the city by the association to small vendors, not to one individual vendor, but te a number of men with small businesses, who require a fluctuating quantity daily. All that the employee would do would be to receive the milk, after it bad passed through the test, and then distribute.it to the small customers of the association. The committee ijecommcnded that an assurance be given to tihe association that ail milk except -where specially exempted- by the Wellington City Milk Ac(b, 1910, and its amendment, would be required to be tested at tbe clearing bouse when established. The question of tho permission for the association’s employee to distribute from the clearing house the parcel of milk to the association's email customers would be considered and a report submitted to the counoil Latter. It was explained that Mr Wilfqrd had been onga.gri to make representations on behalf of the Karori Milk. Supply Oomr jpany, bat owing to tbe sitting of Parliament be wias unable to attend the meeting of the council. On the suggestion of the Mayor the case of this company was adjourned. The council proceeded to consider other oases on the order paper, and various explanations were tendered by the vendors concerned. Mr Remain stated that since his prosecution be found by making tests that ho had been victimised in connection with cn-s can of milk toce-ved from a dairy farm. He himself had never added anv water. . In the case of Mr Slack it was urged that the watering had been done at Otalci by a temporary supplier being responsible. When called upon for an explanation this individual had suggested that tbe only way the watering could have occurred was through the mdk being left under a snout when it pinned during the night. He bad offered to pay something in connection with the proeecution. , , , , Mr Parker said that he had. a run of 30 or 40 gallons, and he got his milk through the Fanners' Association. He had no moans of testing his milk, and

relied on the good faith of other people. Mr Yeats said he could not account for his milk being below standard. He vended it j ust as jje received it. The Mayor said that the public must be protected against any'default on the part of vendors. The matter was a serious one, especially in relation to the fat standard Tor the lives of infants were at stake. The council would be very exacting in the future, and he ■would advise vendors to bo particularly careful to avoid offences which wouid bring them‘ before the court. Xt was decided that “the clause of tne committee’s report with reference to the request of the Wellington Dairy Farmers’ Co-operative Association should be referred back to the committee. The maibter of prosecutions was also referred to the committee- .

Yesterday something of .. I ts ~l°' rmer glory seemed to . blossom in at least one corner of the Isle of H ight, when Newport did honour to Lord Cansbrooke and his bride on. their first visit since their marriage, says a Dondon paper of August. _ The Isle ot Wight is very proud of its Royal Uovernor of Carisbrooke Castle—-Princess Beatrice —and. Her Royal is now the only Eoyal persocago-of whom the inhabitants see Anything, as, although Princess Louise,. Duchess o» Argyll, has a cottage there, she does not often visit it. Everyone was pleased, therefore, when the name of Carisbrooke was adopted by Pnaoe Alexander.