MILK ADULTERATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 27 April 1907, Page 2

MILK ADULTERATION.

MILK SELLERS FINED. I'cr Press Association. Auckland, April 20. Judgment was given this afternoon by ilr. 1!. W. Dyer S.M., in the dairy prosecution in which David Ireland, John Bayliss, Edmund Chisman, and Samuel Wood were charged with mixing boric acid with milk for human consumption. His Worship said that the boric acid found in the milk must have come there by human agency. He had no hesitation in holding that boric acid introduced into milk irrespective of quantity was injurious. B'ayliss admitted using a. certain amount of the compound named "l'reservatis," which contained a proportion of boric acid. With regard to the others, both defendants and suppliers denied adulterating the milk in any way. Obviously someone was not telling the truth. (In the- filets he was prepared to hold that defendants, and not the suppliers, introduced (he acid or some coinpound containing boric acid, for thev were the persons who had the greatest interest in keeping milk from going sour. All defendants would be convicted. lSaylis, who admitted using 'tUrc-servilas'," but did not know that he was doing wrong, would be lined 20s and costs. The other three defendants would each lie lined C(i and costs. In these eases he had not indicted heavy lines, but in any future cases which came before, him, except under exceptional circumstances, he would inlliet the maximum penalty. Mr. Northcroft gave notice of appeal on behal of his client, Chisman.