WATERED MILK.
FARMER HEAVILY FINED. DARGAVILLE. August 19. A farmer named William Mackie,, who supplies a local milk vendor with milk, was charged at the Police Court last week with selling milk containing 12 per cent, of added water. When the case was heard, Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., reserved his judgment,, which he delivered to-day. The Magistrate said that the defendant had not availed himselg of the clause in the Act which allowed him to challenge the analyst’s report, nor did he have the sample left with him analysed. His Worship said he considered that the methods of analysis adopted by the department afforded a simple and reliable means of testing the purity of milk and detecting adulteration with water. The defendant had. stated in court that the aralysis was not correct. The defendant would be fined £25 and costa on the first charge, and on the second of selling milk which did not comply with the standard
prescribed by the regulations, he would be convicted and ordered to pay costs.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3832, 23 August 1927, Page 22
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