EXCESSIVE MOISTURE IN BUTTER.
PROSECUTION IN AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, March 28. A charge of selling butter which contained moisture in excess of the amount permitted by law was brought against Henry Havelock Meredith, manager of the Helensville Dairy Factory, who appeared at the Police Court to-day. An analysis had shown that the butter contained over 17 per cent, of water, while the regulations require that there shall not be more than 16 per cent. Mr 'Selwyn Mays, who appeared on behalf of the Department of Agriculture, explained that all dairy factories in the country had been circularised by the department and their attention had been drawn to the fact that complaints had been received from London regarding excessive moisture in New Zealand butter. Mr Meredith explained that the offence was entirely the result of inadvertence on the part of his butter-maker in not regulating with sufficient nicety the temperature of the cream. His Worship said that he could not accept such an. explanation as a sufficient excuse. A fine of £5 and costs (£1 9s) was inflicted.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3029, 3 April 1912, Page 18
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