H.—3l.

SECTION 6.—WORKING OP THE SALE OP POOD AND DRUGS ACT. The following tables enable a rapid survey to be made of the activities of the Department in the direction of ensuring compliance with the above Act. The corresponding figures for 1921 are supplied for the purposes of comparison.

Table 1. —Showing Samples respectively of Milk and other Foodstuffs taken and dealt with during the Year ended 31st December, 1922.

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Samples not complying. Number of Samples taken. Number of Vendors. Number of Warnings Milk. Other. Milk. Other. Numbe Prose cul recomme jr of tions raded. Number of Samples. Hospital District. Milk. Other. Milk. Other. Milk. Other. Kaipara Whangarei Auckland Waikato Thames 3 8 201 50 8 2 5 37 62 3 162 48 12 18 21 3 1 7 1 1 2 1 1 2 i 1 1 2 Tauranga Bay of Plenty Taumarunui Cook Wairoa Hawke's Bay Waipawa Taranaki Stratford 199 13 78 17 1 5 2 8 12 II 1 1 5 2 8 1 10 1 3 1 2 6 1 "2 1 '4 5 1 Hawera Patea Wanganui Palmerston North Wellington Wairarapa Wairau-Picton Nelson Westland Buller Grey North Canterbury Ashburton South Canterbury Waitaki Otago South Otago Vincent Southland Wallace and Fiord .. 20 15 1,698 33 30 29 10 31 29 175 24 23 46 127 26 9 93 19 11 22 3 5 12 45 8 4 5 12 12 4 2 5 49 4 3 2 2 4 3 42 4 6 3 8 1 1 5 3 2 4 2 8 "4 2 5 43 4 2 2 2 3 3 36 4 6 2 8 2 1 5 3 *2 4 2 6 "3 "3 21 4 1 2 3 1 1 22 3 2 1 7 1 1 3 2 i 3 1 2 2 17 *2 2 i 6 i 1 2 2 i 2 2 '2 2 i9 1 5 5 "i 3 2 17 1 4 1 1 i 8 20 2 2 17 6 2 2 '2 2 3 Totals, 1922 .. 3,077 532 163 03 149 47 83 19 04 27 Totals, 1921 .. 110 3,260 738 180 244 170 162 83 35 87