SALE OF MILK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1940, Page 6

SALE OF MILK

CARTERTON SUPPLIERS FINED

SAMPLES MUCH BELOW STANDARD. COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE. “It is the worst case of its kind that I have ever heard,” observed Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., at a sitting of the Masterton Magistrate’s Court this morning, when Charles William Jensen, of Carterton, was fined £2O and 10s costs, convicted and ordered to pay 10s costs, and fined £2 and 10s costs on charges relating to the sale of milk. On a charge of a similar nature O. A. Cadwallader, also of Carterton, was fined £3 10s and £1 10s. The charges against Jensen were that (1) he sold milk of a standard below that required by the regulations of the Food and Drug Act; (2) the milk contained 34 per cent added water; (3) a second sample contained 40 per cent added water; (4), selling milk without have a registered dairy. O. A. Cadwallader was charged with selling milk that did not comply with the regulations in that 16.9 per cent of the milk fat was removed. A charge against a vendor, Robert Emerson (Mr Macfarlane Laing), of selling milk which contained 29 per cent added water was withdrawn. The Borough Inspector (Mr T. A. Russell) stated that Mr Emerson had come to him and suggested that milk he. had obtained from Jensen required testing.

Mr R. R. Burridge appeared for both defendants. He entered a plea of guilty on the first charge against Jensen, but pleaded not guilty on the others. Mr Burridge submitted that Jensen’s milk cooler had gone wrong and had permitted water to enter the milk at various intervals. In the case of Cadwallader, the offence had been the result of a mischance. The can from which the samples had been taken had lost some of its contents without being stirred, and as a result one can was particularly rich, and the other was not quite up to standard.