THE BUTTER BILL.
Received Last Night, 9.44 o'clock. LONDON, February 21. The Butter Bill provides for the registration and inspection of factories where butter is blended, reworked, or butter substitutes made. It'empowers the Board of Agriculture authorities to enter unregistered premises if they believe an inspection is desirable. It limits moisture to 16 per cent, for butter and margerine, whether home-made .or imported, and 24 per cent, for butter substitutes. The latter must be delivered to purchasers in a wrapper bearing a printed description of the article. The penalty for the first offence un-' der the Act is a fine of £2O; second offence, fine not exceeding £SO; third and subsequent offences, fines not exceeding £IOO, with imprisonment in cases which come within the scope of the Food and Drugs Act of 1899.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8365, 22 February 1907, Page 5
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133THE BUTTER BILL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8365, 22 February 1907, Page 5
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