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Six grocers' shops and one baker's premises are registered
for the preparation of preserved meat, etc., and all the fish friers'
premises are similarly registered in respect of fish frying.
Milk. Milk & Dairies Regulations, 1949-1954.
The handling and retail distribution of milk in Urban areas
has become a concentrated and well organised industry. Apart
from small quantities bottled on the farm, milk is collected in the
distant producing areas and transported in bulk to large processing
plants situate in the consuming centres where it is pasteurised or
sterilised and bottled for sale by a comparatively few large dairy
companies.
Residents in this district rely in the main on these sources of
supply, there being only one registered dairy now operating in the
Council's area. These latter premises were recently rebuilt and
re-equipped with the most modern High Temperature Short Time
Pasteurisation plant.
General control by the department is exercised under the
above regulations and only pasteurised, tuberculin tested or
sterilised milk can be sold in the district as a result of a Special
Designations Order made in 1951.
The entries in the register, which has to be kept, were as
follows :—
Distributors of Milk in the District 20
Premises registered as Dairies 1
Under the Milk (Special Designation) Regulations, 1949-1954,
the following licences to sell milk were issued during the year:—
Dealers: Supplementary :
Tuberculin Tested 19 Tuberculin Tested 9
Pasteurised 22 Pasteurised 9
Sterilised 16 Sterilised 7
Pasteuriser's 1