MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16818, 22 August 1922, Page 7

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

TO-DAY’S CASES. CHRISTCHURCH. (Before Mr H. Y. Widdowson, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. A first offender was fined 10s, in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. BREACH OF ORDER. Sydney Oberry was fined 20s for obtaining liquor during the currency of a prohibition order. REMANDED. George Wnlding (Mr R. A. Outhbet't) was charged that on or about .July 1, at Christchurch, he received from Charles Burland the sum of £1 7.s (id on terms requiring him to account to Fred Ulrich, and that he failed to do so. Chief-Detective A. Cameron said accused had been arrested in \V ellington yesterday, and that further charges were pending against him. The accused was remanded to appear on August- 30. UNCOVERED MILK CANS. .1. W. Clark, a retail milk-vendor, Halswell, was fined 40s for carrying milk in an uncovered vessel. For using a vessel with broken surfaces for carrying milk Clark was fined 20s. DEFICIENT IN STANDARD. George Edgar (Mr A. F. Wright) was charged that on July 11, at Woolston. he sold inilk 4.01 per cent, below the standard in milk fat. He was also charged with selling another sample of milk 7.7 below standard. Air Wright said that the defendant had been dairying for thirty years, and ho had never previously been before the courts. '.Hie milk in question had come direct from the cows, and the samples were taken while the cans were standing on the Woolston station. The poorness in the quality of the milk was due to the cows and the effect that the season had upon them. J. A. McKenzie, a health inspector, said lie took the samples of milk, and the Government analyst reported that there was a deficiency equivalent to 4.(il and 7.7 below standard of milk fat - The Magistrate said it had be.cn impressed upon dairymen times without number that they must sell milk up to standard. There were exceptions when it was not the vendor’s fault, but it- was not for him to say how the dairymen could overcome this. The defendant- was fined £lO on each charge. A NUISANCE Hugh and Joseph O’Connor, proprietors of the Bodega. Cafe, were fined 20s for permitting a nuisance to be created by an accumulation of vegetable matter in a right-of-way at the back of their premises. For allowing an accumulation of waste food, the defendants were lined 10s and costs.