DAIRYING LAWS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1923, 5 November 1906, Page 1

DAIRYING LAWS

A BATCH OF OASES, Bpja-a*-* PRESS ASSOCIATION Auckland, Saturday. I Sovoral charges against dairy people were invcatigaUd by-Mc Dyer, S.M., today. Sarah Holt, of Otshuhu, admitted having sold milk not obtained from a registered dairy. She said sho hnd applied for a license, and was expecting it to be sont to her. Decision was defetred pending tbe keariDg of tho other oases. Michael Doyio and Edward West, of Otnhuhu, pleaded guilty to similar offences. Mr Mays, for tho prosooution, said there oould bo no plea of ignorance in West’s case, because ba was e’erk of the Road Board, and had boon issuing slaughtering licenses. Ia Doyle’s case a neighbor

named Burges?, who had received tho milk, gave evidence that tho milk was a gift in return for neighborly note, Hib Worship said bo had his suspicions about Doyle’s proceeding?, but would not ooa* vies, West raisod a defence that ho did cot think a license was necessary for supplying a pint of milk a day to a couple of neighbors, He was fined £5, and £1 17s fid costs, Mrs Hch was fined £l, and £1 10i oosls.

Thomas Discombe, of Otshuhu (defended by Mr J. C, Martin) pleaded not guilty to a charge ot having failed to inform the inspector that ho had b diseased oow in his herd, Bnd further, of having mixed the diicasod cow’s milk with milk produoed for sale, Wiiliam Robert 8.-own, Dairy Inspector, said that on September 25sh kp saw the cow in question. Is had a swelling on the udder as big as au ostrich egg. The lurnb would indicate to any experienced dairyman that the milk was unfit for use.

F. 11, BiittaiD, Btoek lospcctcr, Eaid tho swelling was oaused by tuberculosis. It must bave been conspicuous for at least five months before.

For tho defence, Mr Martin said it must be shown, not only that the cow was tuberouloue, but also that it appeared so to tbe accused.

Aocused, on ontb, said ho milked from 70 to 90 cows. He did not notice tho lamp till a few days before the Inspector’s visit, and be attributed it to a blew. His Worship held that it must be shown to have appeared to the proprietor of the dairy that tho cow was possibly suffering from disease. Defendant bad a large dairy, and consequently a reputation to Bave. If tho cow bad appeared to him to be diseased he would, in his own in. tereets, have naturally taken proper steps. The Inepeotor, however, did quite the proper thing in taking the proceedings, as there was evidently a prima facie ease. If disease had been palpably obvious it would bo a different matter, but even the Dairy Inspector was in doubt at first iu this oase. His Worhip dismissed the esse.