ALLEGED ADULTERATED MILK

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 298, 10 September 1921, Page 11

ALLEGED ADULTERATED MILK

INFORMATIONS DISMISSED. Yesterday Elizabeth Phillipps, shopkeeper, Cuba Street, was charged in the Magistrate’s Court with selling, milk containing 24 pe¥ cent, added water, also with selling adulterated milk without. informing the purchaser of the ’adulteration. * Inspector Rawlinson of tho Health Department, stated that ho took several samples of milk at defendant’s shop in tho usual way. Ho took one sample from an earthenware vessel at the back of tho shop, another from a “billy,” which was Inside the shop and l standing on a counter behind some stock, and a third from a can oa the co-qnter. The defendant accepted payment 'for the latter, but refused payment for thp other samples. He mixed the samples obtained from the earthenware vessel nnd the billycan, it was the combination that showed the added water. The other sample was quite up to the standard. For the defence Mr. Mazengarb contended that the information should be dismissed as the samples wore taken /from vessels containing milk that was not for sale. The earthenware vessel was not in the shop at all, and the milk in It was intended for the defendant’s own use. It was probable that the water came from this vessel, and it was not fait of the inspector to mix the two samples. After hearing the.'evidence the Magistrate (Mr. Fl K. Hunt) said that he was not fllTogether satisfied with the defence, but he had a doubt, and would give the SefenHant the benefit of it. The informations were/dismissed.