THE MARGARINE MENACE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1494, 17 July 1912, Page 10

THE MARGARINE MENACE.

IMITATIONS BOWLED OCT. A striking example of the detection of fraud by means of "series sampling" was nHorded recently (say.- the' "Live Stock Journal"),, in connection with the prosecution of fourteen traders for silling margarine as butter, by the local atilhority of one of the London boroughs.' Jn Hie early part of the your the assistants of the inspector appointed liv ths Department nf Agriculture and Technical ] : nslruction for Ireland to protect Irish agricultural interest in (.ireat Hritain made a series of purchases of "Irish butter" "as ordinary customers at different shops in the borough; 138 samples in all were, obtained at the fourteen shops in, question, and of these 107. were found to b-3 margarine. Arrangements were accordingly made with the local authority whereby tile olticc-rs of the Department, acted as the agents of the-.lnspectors of the local authority in taking samples nt the shops' in f|iiesUon, and, as a result, fourteen out of Iho sixteen shopkeepers from whom samples were purchased were prosecuted for selling margarine as butter and fined J:i and 12s. (id. costs in each case. In ten out of the . fonvieev e-««s the shopkeepers supplied butter, or butter and nurgarius alternately, until they were satisfied that the purchasers were ordinary customers. It is stated that as a result of the above disclosures, the New South Wales Minister for Customs is instructing the High Commissioner to inquire into the fraudulent .sale in England of niai'garine lis Australian bntbr.'

" "i'is unwise to buy a pig tn a poite;" Before deciding' on what Vats to install, the Mangatoki and Eltham Dairy Companies made thorough' investigations in order to get tho best make. They came to the conclusion that "Victor" Vats aro easily first, and' placed, order for fifty. o(he'r factories should follow suit at once and <=o make certain of getting their '.'Victor" Vats at an early date. Albert J. Parton, Manufacturer, Carterton.