ADULTERATED MILK

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12199, 25 July 1925, Page 4

ADULTERATED MILK

FOUR DAIRYMEN FINED “A PROFITABLE COOLER.” Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 24. Four dairymen were fined a total, of £l3O in the Police Court to-day for selling milk containing added water. George D. Bates, on, two charges relating to 39 per cent, and 35 per cent, of added water, was fined £3O on each charge. Bates alleged someone must have tampered with his milkpans and .put water in. He said he could not pay the fine, and it would send him The magistrate, Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., said if the defendant thought the fine too heavy. he. could apply to the Minister. The public must be protected. It was little children who suffered, and it was on this sustenance that life and death often depended. Henry John Millen admitted four charges relating to 10, 9. 8, and 7 per cent, of added water. His only explanation was that' • his cooler had been leaking. Mr Poynton: It has been a very profitable cooler. I have heard that story too often. The magistrate imposed a fine of £lO on each of the four charges. George Mitchell (18 per cent, added water) was fined £2O, and Charles Wilson (9 per cent.) £lO. A GLARING CASE VENDOR WITH CAN OF WATER. In the Police Court, yesterday, before Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., a milk vendor named Gordon Thomas St. Romain was fined £SO land cpsts on a charge of selling, adulterated milk, and was sent to gaol for a month for carrying a can of water on his milk-cart. The evidence disclosed that the' defendant sold two samples of milk, one of which contained 80'per cent, of added water and the other 78 per cent. DAIRYMEN BEFORE COURT Before Mr C : R; Orr-Walker, S.M., yesterday morning two police cases, charging the defendants with the sale of milk not complying with the standard regulations as regards amount of water, were heard. In the case of Samuel Howan, Inspector Rawlinson stated that the analyst’s test indicated that defendant’s milk contained 7 per cent, of added water. Howan was convicted, and fined £3 and costs. The case against Arthur David Benge, similarly charged (whose milk was said to contain 9 per oent. of added water), was adjourned.