Thank you for correcting the text in this article. Your corrections improve Papers Past searches for everyone. See the latest corrections.

This article contains searchable text which was automatically generated and may contain errors. Join the community and correct any errors you spot to help us improve Papers Past.

Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image

MOISTURE IN BUTTER.

DAIRY COMPANY FINED. A charge of selling butter which contained moisture in excesa of the amount permitted by law, was brought against Henry Havelock Meredith, manager of the Helensville Dairy Company, who appeared at the Police Court, Helensville, last week. Analysis had shown that the butter in question contained over 17 per cent, of water, while the regulations require that there shall not be more than 16 per cent. Mr Selwyn Mays, who appeared on behalf of the Department of Agriculture, explained that all the dairy factories in the country had been circularised by the department, and their attention had been drawn to the fact that complaints had been received from London regarding excessive moisture in New Zealand butter, he said, further, that in January last, prior to the issue of the circular, the defendant company had been notified of the same defect in a portion of their output, and on that occasion had withdrawn a portion of a consignment intended for export. Mr Meredith explained that the offence was entirely the result of inadvertence, and as occasioned by carelessness on the part of hia butter maker in not regulating with sufficient nicety the temperature of the cream. A mistake in this direction was often very difficult to avoid. Mis Worship said that lie would not accept such an explanation as a sufficient excuse, 'especially as the company had been previously warned. It was most essential that this tault in butter making should be eradicated, in view of the lurco competition which the New Zealand product had to face in the. Home markets. It was necessary to impose a penalty which would servo as a warning to others._ A fine of ,£o and costs 2Ss, was in--11 i c t e d.

Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/KCC19120403.2.8.3

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 453, 3 April 1912, Page 3

Word count
Tapeke kupu
295

MOISTURE IN BUTTER. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 453, 3 April 1912, Page 3

MOISTURE IN BUTTER. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 453, 3 April 1912, Page 3

Help

Log in or create a Papers Past website account

Use your Papers Past website account to correct newspaper text.

By creating and using this account you agree to our terms of use.

Log in with RealMe®

If you’ve used a RealMe login somewhere else, you can use it here too. If you don’t already have a username and password, just click Log in and you can choose to create one.


Log in again to continue your work

Your session has expired.

Log in again with RealMe®


Alert