DAIRY INDUSTRY REGULATIONS.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11923, 1 May 1907, Page 4

DAIRY INDUSTRY REGULATIONS.

APPEAL CASE

Auckland, April 30. Judgment was given by Mr Justice Cooper this afternoon in the appeal case of Brown v. Ambury, in which the point involved was the interpretation of the leguiations undor the Dairy Industry Act, 1898. The appellant ia a dairy inspector and the respondent a dairyman, who was .charged with a breach of the regulations by failing to cleanse, within the period of four hours after use, the milk cans used in or about his dairy. The case had been dismissed by the Magistrate on the ground that the facts did not show th~at Ambury was the responsible party. His Honor remarked that as the respondent was in possession of the cans from 6.30 in the evening until nine o'clock next morning the regulations would be a dead letter if he was not the person to te held responsible for the cleansing of them. He allowed the appeal with £7 7s costs, ordering reference back to the Magistrate with a direction that a breach of the regulations had been committed. As a conviction carried with it the cancellation of respondent's license, and the respondent had acted honestly ia contesting the regulations, he sug gested that a fresh licensefshould be granted to him, or the information withdrawn.