“ THEY STRUCK THE ONLY BAD CAN.”
VENDORS FINED FOR SELLING STALE MILKIn the Magistrate’s Court to-day, Harold Robert Palmer and William Deans were charged with selling milk under standard. Mr Brown, prosecuting, said that Deans’s sample had turned blue in thirty-three minutes under the reductes test. Palmer, who had got his milk from the same source, saw his sample turn blue in an hour. The minimum time allowed was three hours.
Mr Livingstone, who appeared for Deans, said that his client was a milk vendor before and since the war. lie had been away in the army, and had an absolutely clean record. The milk that failed the test had been bought, and had not come from defendant’s own herd.
Palmer said he was a vendor only in a small way. and sold his own milk. On the occasion in question, however, he had spilt seven gallons, and had had to buy from a dairy. Mr Brown said that tests had been made at the dair}’, and the milk there had proved up to standard. The defendants must have struck the only bad can.
Deans was fined 30s and costs, and Palmer 20s and costs.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18442, 18 April 1928, Page 1
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