LOCAL WEATHER BUREAU.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1926, Page 1

LOCAL WEATHER BUREAU.

The local observer for tho Dominion Meteorological Department reports the following rain and sunshine records for the period ending. Sunday. May

NF.AV YORK MILK SCARE. NEAY YORK, May 1. The milk scandal in New York, reference to which was cabled oil April 18th., is growing in scope. The Commissioner of Health, Dir Harris, lias announced that milk watered with stable hoses is responsible for a large proportion of the annual typhoid cases in New York which terminate fatally. A'arious city institutions have discovered so much bad milk and cream being supplied to them that they are compelled to' institute their own inspection system. The Secretary of the Previous Health Comissiouer, who was indicted l>y a givuitl jury charge on 95.000 dol. bail, and the leader of a gang who practiced extortion among dishonest dealers lias pleaded guilty, and await sentence. The present New York State Law requires a three per cent, of butter fat content in milk, and the dishonest wholesalers formed a ring declining to purchase milk from any dairyman with three per cent., preferring a cheaper product, and thus forcing many unwilling dairymen to adulterate their milk. Hundreds of indictments are expected, and special panels of grand juries in the cities .and boroughs are being sworn in.

The office of the-prosecuting attorney is devoting the entire staff to the purposes of investigation.

Sunshine ltani hr: nun. iiis. Monday. April 20th. 1.18 Tuesday, 27th 3 : 40 .30 Wednesday, -8th 1 2 1.37 Thursday, 29th. Frl-dav, 301!). . 2 16 .39 Snttmlav, May 1st. ... •' , 1.0 .05 Sunday 2nd. . 1 54 1.39 Total ... 11 14 5.40 1920. Suns bine Tin in hrs. min. ins. January 204 14 12.40 February 101 40 10.12 March . .. 190 44 12.90 April 90 08 10.04 Total ... 047 42 45.40 Same lour monthly period last y ear 804 ■58 45.38 *sssncEJBa