DAIRY INDUSTRY ACT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13891, 1 May 1907, Page 5

DAIRY INDUSTRY ACT.

AN INTERESTING POINT.

(Per United Pjiess Association.) T . AUCKLAND, April 30. Judgment was given by Mr Justice Cooper this afternoon m the appeal caso of Brown v. Anbury, in which tho point involved was '0 interpretation of the regulations under The Dairy Industrv Act, 1898.-' Appellant w a dairy inspector and respondent a dairyman, who was charged with a breach of tho regi»!alio»i s by failing to cleansc, within a period of four houra aftor " se . tho milk-eans usod in or about his dairy.- the case had been dismissed by tho magistrate on tho ground that tho fact's did not .show that Mr 1 Ambury was the responsible party. His Honor remarked that as respondent was in possession of the cans from 6.30 in tho evening until 9 o'clock next morninc the regulation would bu a dead lotter if ho were not the person to be held responsible for the cleansing of the cans. He allowed tho appeal, wjth £7 7s costs, ordering reference back to the magistrate with a direction iliat a brcaoh of the regulation had been committed. As tho conviction earned with it the cancellation of respondent s license, and respondent had acted honestly m contesting the regulation, he suggested that a fresh licenso should bo granted to him or tlio information withdrawn.