A DEFECTIVE MILK-CAN.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8755, 4 March 1907, Page 1

A DEFECTIVE MILK-CAN.

The Health Department on Friday took proceedings at the Magistrate’s Court against an Upper Hutt Farmer (J. M. Bonge). charging him with (1) selling milk likely to endanger public health, and (2) selling milk unfit for human consumption. Defendant pleaded guilty, Mr M. Myers, who prosecuted on behalf of the department, said defendant had consigned live gallons of milk to a dairyman in Wellington in a pan that had been repaired in a peculiar way. It was broken in places, and the interstices were filled in with common soap. When found on the railway station the milk was oozing out through these holes. It was only fair to defendant to say that the milk was sweet, but the stale of the can gave reason, m the opinion of the Health Officer, to suppose that the contents, if not actually unfit for human consumption, were at least likely to endanger public health. He did not press for a heavy penalty. Dr. McArthur, S.M., remarked that men in defendant’s position should look at the act. The can in question ought to have been relegated to one of the “ tin-can gullies.” As the ease was the first of the kind, he would inflict only the nominal penalty of 20s. Costs amounted to £3 10s.