ADULTERATED MILK
FORTY-TWO PER CENT. OF ADDED
WATER.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
Wanganul, October 7.
"This is a record case. I have not had one or heard of, one like it. I have liad one of 19 per cent., and Mr. Frazer had one in Auckland of 27 or 28, but 42 per cent, of added! water !"• 7v£r. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., remarked at the conclusion of a oaso in which a local dairy ifarmer in a Email way was charged under the Pood and Drupes Act with selling adulterated milk, official analysis of which showed 42 per cent, of added water. The defendant) Alexander Guthrie, could not explain how it happened. He was in the habit of selling his milk to a vendor, the amount thus sold being about four gallons a day. He was fined £20, with £2 witnesses' expenses, and costs 9s.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 11, 8 October 1918, Page 4
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143ADULTERATED MILK Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 11, 8 October 1918, Page 4
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