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* Samples contained respectively 24.5, 23.0, 23.0, 22.4, 22.0, 21.0, 21.0, 21.0,
21.0, 21.0, 20.3, 18.9, 18.9, 18.4, 18.2, 18.0, 17.3, 17.9, 17.0, 16.9, 16.8, 16.8, 16.5,
16.5, 16.0, 14.0, 14.0, 13.0, 12.6, 12.0, 11.0, 10.4, 10.0, 9.8, 8.0, grains of boric acid
per lb.
Aotioh Taken—Nil.
Infringements under Article 5 (1)—Nil.
Infringements under Article 5 (2)—NiL
During the year 76 milk sellers took advantage of the provision contained
in 3rd Schedule of the Milk and Dairies Act, 1915, to request the
Local Authority to take samples from the consignors at the place of
delivery. The form of written request is prescribed in the Schedule,
and although 70 of the requests were in proper legal form, almost double
that number were quite inadmissible in that they specified neither time
nor place where the samples could be taken nor did they express a request
for such samples to be taken. It is important to note that there is no
obligation on the Local Authority to take the extra samples from the
consignor unless the request is submitted in due legal form and lodged with
the authority within GO hours of the taking of the original sample. Unless
the precise requirements of the schedule are observed a warranty cannot
be pleaded.
It proved necessary to take samples from consignors only in 4 cases,
in response to the requests from 76 vendors, as 72 of the original samples
from the vendors proved genuine.
The analysis of samples from vendors which were not genuine are
summarised below, together with the results of the corresponding samples
taken subsequently from the consignors:—