PURE MILK PLAN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 4

PURE MILK PLAN

CAMPAIGN IN NAPIER TUBERCULIN TESTS BEGUN A campaign aimed at ensuring a pure milk supply for Napier was inaugurated on Thursday with the coming into force of the Napier Borough Council’s recent by-law, which requiresi the tuberculin testing of dairy herds from ’which Napier’s milk supply is drawn. Eight herds is the maximum number which can be dealt with at one time, and the testing will continue at the rate of eight every two days until the entire programme is completed. Of the 32 vendors supplying milk to customers in Napier, approximately 20 have registered in conformity with the requirements of the new milk by-laws. Samples of milk from cows in the herds receiving attention are taken by the Borough Council inspector, Mr. E. Grant, and are placed in an ice-box until they are delivered for testing to Mr. N. J. Ellison, bacteriologist at the Napier Public Hospital. This precaution is taken to ensure that the milk remains at a consistent temperature, thus preventing an increase in bacteria. Within four hours of the taking of samples', they are placed in the hands of the bacteriologist, who immediately commences the testing. Facilities are being given to dairymen to arrange to be present while milk from their herds is being examined.