FLAVOUR IN BULK

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 693, 19 June 1929, Page 11

FLAVOUR IN BULK

COWS ON SPRING FEED DISPUTE BEFORE COURT The effect of pasteurisation of milk flavoured by spring feed was explained to Mr. Justice Blair in the Supreme Court yesterday in a case involving a dispute between dairymen over the quality of milk and cream supplies. William Percival Levy (Mr. Fleming), a Glen Eden farmer, is suing Raymond C. Rowlandson (Mr. Glaister), an Auckland dairyman, for £487 for breach of contract, repayment of a loan and for milk and cream supplied. Rowlandson is counter-claim-ing £566, representing loss of profits and damages. Expert evidence for the defence, given by Herbert Masters, showed that pasteurisation would not remove spring feed flavour entirely from milk. It would start to return after 10 or 12 hours. William Mangan, another expert, declared that pasteurisation destroyed the bacteria but not the spores. Feedy flavour in milk during the spring was really caused by a kind of essence, and not by bacteria. Evidence was given on behalf of plaintiff by Victor Membury. He asserted that “fishy” flavoured milk would not be accepted by milkmen of standing. Pasteurisation would keep milk free from flavour for 20 to 24 hours. Recalled, Levy declared that he had been assured by Stonex Brothers that his milk was quite fit for consumption ,and the firm had never mentioned the presence of fishy flavour, which was believed to have originated from manuring with basic slag. Legal argument is proceeding. (Proceeding.)