ADULTERATED MILK.
REAL CULPRIT NOT PROSEs CUTED.
Masterton, February 10. A charge of selljng adulterated milk, containing nine ..per cent, of water, was preferred against William Parker, dairyman, of Masterton, in the Magistrate’s .Court today.
■Sergeant Dyer said that a farmer, whose name was mentioned, was the real culprit in the case. Defendant obtained his supplies of milk from this farmer and retailed them to the public. Samples had been taken of the milk on the farm also, and deficiencies, it was alleyed, had been found equal to those in the milk in possession of defendant. Mr. R. R. Burridge, who appeared for defendant, said that no water had been added to the milk by defendant after it had been obtained from the farm.
Intimating that he was taking into consideration the fact that defendant was not the guilty party, the Magistrate imposed a fine of £2 with costs.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19280211.2.21
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3753, 11 February 1928, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
149ADULTERATED MILK. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3753, 11 February 1928, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in