COWS GAVE POOR MILK

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 564, 17 January 1929, Page 13

COWS GAVE POOR MILK

VENDORS PAY THE PENALTY ICE-CREAM SELLERS FINED (From Our Own Correspondent > PUKEKOHE, To-day. Two milk vendors at Mercer, V. A. Collins and Thomas Wright, were charged in the Pukekohe Magistrate’s Court yesterday with selling milk not up to standard. Collins pleaded guilty and Wright pleaded not guilty. Thomas C. Thompson, inspector of health, said he took a sample of milk from Collins's supply. On analysis it proved to have a butter-fat test lower than the minimum specified by the law, which was 3.25 per cent. There was no evidence of adLilteration, and it appeared to be a case of defendant’s cow giving poor quality milk. Collins was fined £3 and costs £1 Os 9d. The inspector said a sample taken from Wright’s supply also gave a lower test than minimum. Wright said he sold only about three gallons of milk that day. It must have been from a low-testing cow. Accused was fined £4 and costs £1 Os 9d. Two ice-cream vendors at; Pukekohe, John Aitken and Florence Armstrong, were each fined £2 and costs £1 Is 6d, for selling ice cream under standard. Inspector Thompson said samples taken at defendants’ shops on November 29 proved to contain less than the 10 per cent, of milk-fat required by law. Mr. F. A. Hosking, who appeared for Mrs. Armstrong, said the ice-cream, vendors were in the hands of those who sold them the milk for making the ice cream.