GRADING OF CREAM.

Otago Witness, Issue 3828, 26 July 1927, Page 20

GRADING OF CREAM.

FACTORY MANAGER FINED. WOODVILLE, July 21. A decision of interest to the dairy industry was delivered by Mr S. L. Free, S.M., in the Woodville Court this morning. The ease was one in which Joseph Wallace Smith, dairy inspector, took action against John Witton Swede, factory manager, for a breach of the regulations made in the Dairy Act of 1903 in that he assigned to certain cream a grade other than its true grade Smith contended that. certain cream graded first should have been second. Swede argued that the inspectors 'grading had been done after the cream had bc«?>n

at the factory more than a reasonable time, or three hours after the arrival of the cream.

Smith gave evidence that 23 factories in his district showed a percentage of second grade. Tho Magistrate pointed out that it was reasonable that th© defendant's cream could not all have been first grade. That some of it was second grade was proved on the inspector’s visit to the factory. The defendant would be convicted and fined £l, with costs and solicitor’s fee on each of 10 charges. The Magistrate added that the penalty was nominal, as it was the first prosecution under the new regulations.