DIRTY DAIRYMEN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 9 January 1908, Page 2

DIRTY DAIRYMEN.

(Per Press Association.)

CHRISTCHUROH, January 7. Two dairymen appeared before Mr. H. M. Bishop, S.M.. at the Police Court this morning, each charged with two breaches of tihe Dairy Industry Act, 1908. One mani was fined 20.5. for selling. impure milk, and a further 20s. for using uno!ea.n milk cans; and the.other wag als-o fined 40s. oii charges of failing to cool milk for human-consumption, and milking cows in sheds whiohl were mot ketpt in a clean oooidition, as specified by the Act. During the hearing of tho" cases, the Dairy "inspector, in ■answer to questions by the'Magktrate, stated that he had 600 sheds to inspect, ~-and ho ihad. one assistant. In connection with thei last case it- was probably four months since his previous v^sit. The.Magistrate: "A placfe might get mlahty. bad in four months." : '"

Continuing, M,f. Bishop reniarkerl that the.;Tegtjlation.s^;oP,,tJli© Act would have to bo o&mpli©3">:iV;i:tto''l>y dairymen. Breaches.'of- the Act did not very often come before the Court-, and the natural inference was that the dairymen were satisfactorily fulfilling the "requirements of the Act. It-was absolutely "essential

for the protection of the pniblic that the .. milk siipply ■was^kspt pure, and when ■-r-dnv future charges of selling impure milk came baforg -him, and lie1" was satisned tihiat such milk:'was a meHace to the liealtji-of the comraiinity ha would-de-om ■it''Tuj! duty 'to ■inflict -a very severe penalty:7