MILK AND WATER.
Press Association. OAMARTJ, yesterday. At the Magistrate’s Conrt to-day \Vm. Walker was fined £3 and 7s costs for selling milk adulterated with water. The clefenco was that the sample analysed was taken from the bottom of the can, and therefore was poorest in quality, and that owing to the scarcity of feed for cattlo the milk had depreciated so as to show a shortage of 40 per cent, in solids below the required standard. Professor Black stated the shortage might be due to the addition of water. The Magistrate took this view and convicted.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2133, 16 July 1907, Page 3
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97MILK AND WATER. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2133, 16 July 1907, Page 3
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