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DAIRIES, COWSHEDS AND MILKSHOPS.
We have only one registered cowkeeper in the district. The number of
cows vary from 16 to 20, and these cows are out to graze during the greater
part of the year.
There are 79 milksellers on the register, 19 of these are purveyors of
sterilised milk in bottles. The business of selling bottled milk is greatly on the
increase, and it is somewhat difficult to say who should or who should not sell
it, but only those who keep their premises clean are put on the register and a
condition is laid down in the licence that bottled milk must be sold direct to the
customer, and not allowed to be opened on the purveyor's premises.
Nine persons have given up business or have been removed from the
register.
OFFENSIVE TRADES.
Permission to establish the business of a fish fryer was granted in one
instance during the year, so that we now have four who have been given
permission since the Order came into force.
There are 12 who established this business prior to the Order being made,
and these will come within the Bye-laws when put into force.
The new building erected for the business of a gut scraper and for which
the Council granted permission, was finished early in the year. The work was
commenced in March. The employees must appreciate the decided improvement
in working under better conditions, which has done away with much of
the nuisance inseparable from such a business.
The premises are regularly inspected during working hours, and the
ventilating shafts for extracting the effluvia have always been found to be
working satisfactorily.
SHOPS' ACT.
This Act, to my mind, needs considerable amendment, if it is to be properly
administered. There are many opportunities for those who wish to evade the
Act, and it is difficult to catch the offenders, especially is this so in the " mixed
shops," who only sell certain articles after time to their known customers.