The Dairy Industry Act.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 211, 10 September 1904, Page 4

The Dairy Industry Act.

T w«f M - COUrt ' Mr 1. Hutchison dealt with the first cases brought in New Plymouth 'mder the Dairy Industry Act, 1898' On the information of R. Rowan mspector under the Dairy Industry th„t' i/ B i Q : kei ; wa s charged under that Act, with having sold milk rom an unregistered dairy Defend an t "l 68 ?*? gudHy> but Mr Malone said that being concerned in a similar case he would like to draw attention to a technical flaw In the information, in that the section 2 <]Hoted did hot make selling the milk an offence. After argument the information was amended to read owning an unregistered dairy" The case against Charles Wells, men- | tioned by Mr Malone, was tlieA taken w conjunction with the first \fr Rowan, dairy inspector, made ' „ statement alleging that the premises were in a disgustingly filthy condition, with no drainage, and it was imposafete for M m to regjsfe- either. Baker had desisted when told that be was offemdtog. Mr Mtt , said the person to whom tho milk was sold, Mr Hate), one of tho town suppliers, had run short and obtained a temporary supply from the defendants (two fanners who simulv assisted Hales in an emergency) neither party being aware that ' it was illegal. In delivering judgment his Worship said that as these were the first ca?es Irought ~„,-„,,■ lhe Act he would only inflict a nominal p,. u . ally of 10s each, the costs hel.ijr 7s The object was to let produce know that it was an offence to hII milk either directly to the public'or to a middleman from an unregistered dairy.

John Hales, of Uio Avenue Read Dairy, was charged that being the owner of a registered "dairy he rlirj buy milk from an unregistered daii y Mr Malone, for defendant, said (he present case was practically part and parcel of the previous charges. Mis client knew the dairies were unregistered, but was not aware it was an offence to buy therefrom. The inspector acknowledlgiad the Avenue Dairy was a model one in all respects, cleun uml well managed. Mr Malone raised the objection that there was no offence under the Act in buying milk from unregistered premises, land the Magjstrote adjourned the case for a week in order that the department may atjtain the services of the Crown Prosecutor.