DELIVERY OF MILK
CAN LEFT ON FOOTPATH "PRACTICE MUST BE A milk vendor was charged, in the Wanganui Magistrate's Court, this week with failing to take steps to prevent milk from being' contaminated. The milk was being dc'livcircdi by■, a boy employee, who left (refin with the lid' tightly' closed on tile footpath until he served a customer with ft billy. In the interval a dog ertnie along mid licked the edge of the lid. ... . . Mr. Brodie, for the 'defence, submitted it was a common practice allowed in the Dominion to leave; cans on footpaths and also at certain (lumps for the deliverers to pick lip. The magistrate, 'Sir, .t 11. Salmon, said it was a most undesirable practice and must be stopped. The saliva of a dog licking a tin might contain germs of hydatids, and the milk might ultimately'be contaminated. As tin? case was brought as a warning, defendant was convicted without a penalty being imposed. .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17526, 22 July 1931, Page 6
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158DELIVERY OF MILK Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17526, 22 July 1931, Page 6
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