UNLABELLED BUTTER.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 234, 29 September 1914, Page 1

UNLABELLED BUTTER.

Breach of the Food Act

Uurfsi the provisions of the I'ure Food and Drug 9 Act the sale of butter not lab; lied with the name ol

the maker, or containing a preservative and not having the proportion and name of the preservative marked on the label, is a matter involving pains and penalties for the sell.-r. A casa of the sort came before the Auckland Magistrate's Court, when Thomas Ward, secretary of the Alia Dairy Company, was charged that ho sold butter not having a label attached showing the name and address of the maker, and that he sold butter containing boracio acid, without having a label attached to the butter showing the ' proportion of the preservative us°d. A Health Department inspector stated that in June lie came across the butter in ijuestiou wrapped up in plain wrappers and displayed in a store in Karangahake road. He inide enquiries, and found that it cime, through an agent, from t'lo Aria Dairy Company, whose secretary took the full blame of tho breach of the Act. Tho amount of beacic a< i'l in tho butter was very sin ill t The action was not delen i"d. a id his Woiship said that in his <.p nioo the charge of using a p;e*< iv i'iw without having the butter !,ii> I c I tn show the fact, and iho pio ( o.- n.:i of proservatha used was ;i:i i \ tiemely serious one. IL' i-:t- ;i it d to deal very tirm'v with an\ >u. !i cases brought bi'lure hi n, ao I i . any 11:( i Midi btvai In- •.1 the A,: ill" li: es uuuld !t ii:! i( ae 1 The maximum hue n,i., £.'io ; the j 1. .-put defendant ou'd be lined JL 1 .an i ordeii d to ] ay -H's io.«k