MILK INSPECTOR BEATEN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 21, 16 May 1914, Page 5

MILK INSPECTOR BEATEN.

A WELLINGTON INCIDENT. £Pbe Press Association.] Wellington, May 15. At the Magistrate's Court to-day, Frederick Isaac Cottle was charged with refusing to sell milk to an officer under the Sale of Foods and Drugs Act. The defendant pleaded not guilty. John Henry Cowdray, departmental inspector, said that he stopped the defendant and asked for a pint of milk, tendering 2d in payment. The defendant was about to serve him out of one server, when, on looking around, the witness noticed another server in the cart, and asked to be served from this (the second) server, but defendant refused to comply with his request, stating that that milk was not for sale. Witness repeated his request, but defendant still refused, stating that he would serve him from any other can but the one in question. On previous occasions the defendant had always sold him samples without demur. On the day in question defendant said the milk was not for sale because it was sour. Witness (did not ask to taste the milk. In dismissing the information, the Magistrate said that in order to create an offence it must be established that the milk was for sale. He was quite satisfied with the defendant's explanation that the milk was not intended for sale.