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SECTION 6.—WORKING OF THE SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS A( T. 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 1922 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, 1923.

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Samples not :omplylng. Number of takei Samples n. Number of Samples. Number of Vendors. Number of issui Earnings 1 Numbi Vrosecu recomnu erof Ltions ended. Hospital District. 1. Milk. Other. 1 Milk. I Other. Milk. Other. Milk. Other. Milk. Other. I_ Mangonui .. Whangaroa.. Bay of Islands Hokianga Kaipara Whangarei Auckland Waikato 'Thames Waihi Coromandel Tauranga Bay of Plenty Taumarunui Waiapu Cook Wairoa Hawke's Bay Waipawa Taranaki Stratford Hawera Patea Wanganui Palmerston North Wellington Wairarapa Wairau-Picton Nelson Westland Buller Inangahua Grey North Canterbury Ashburton Smith Canterbury Waitaki Otago South Otago Vincent Maniototo Southland Wallace and Fiord .. 2 7 22 249 55 4 4 1 49 54 15 114 31 51 32 49 1 28 48 1,736 42 36 52 22 21 3 53 257 16 62 44 48 41 10 4 85 15 3 7 52 10 2 3 4 4 31 2 25 27 55 3 86 5 51 13 4 14 38 8 11 5 2 1 3 1 1 3 3 2 1 1 2 2 3 9 5 2 "l 3 1 1 3 3 2 1 1 1 5 2 I 2 3 I 4 "2 "l "l 1 1 4 1 i 8 1 2 1 I 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 62 6 2 3 59 3 1 2 3 27 i 2 1 2 1 25 2 1 7 3 2 5 6 3 2 5 2 2 i 2 4 4 I 14 67 3 85 1 16 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 78 1 16 2 2 3 2 3 2 2 39 1 6 1 2 3 2 '2 2 1 35 1 8 1 13 J 3 3 3 io 1 1 i 7 1 1.2 2 12 2 8 2 4 . Totals, 1923 .. 3,363 559 239 39 226 :iii 105 10 110 18 Totals, 1922 .. 83 19 64 27 3,077 532 163 63 149 47