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SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS, 1875-1907.
1911.
RESULTS OF PROSECUTIONS.
Sample.
First Quarter.
Nature and Extent of Adulteration.
Result.
90
Milk
5 per cent. added water
£10 and £3 3s. costs.
101
„
5 per cent. added water .
271
„
14 per cent. added water
£5 and 17s. 6d. expenses.
285
Butter
50 per cent. margarine
2s. 6d. and 38s. 6d. expenses.
286
„
35 per cent. margarine
5s. and 21s. expenses.
363
„
100 per cent. margarine
2s. &d. and 17s. &d. expenses.
Second Quarter.
709
Batter
100 per cent. margarine
Dismissed.
Third Quarter.
763
Milk
7 per cent. added water
Warranty pleaded, summons
withdrawn on payment of
costs, 17s. 6d.
815
„
11 per cent. added water
£5 and £1 1s. costs.
819
,,
11 per cent. added water
Dismissed, warranty proved.
837
„
6 per cent. added water
2s. 6d. and 17s. 6d. expenses.
844
„
35 per cent. added water
£5 and £5 5s. costs.
845
„
32 per cent. added water
£5.
Fourth Quarter.
837
Milk
6 per cent. added water
2s. 6d. and 17s. 6d. expenses.
960
,,
17 per cent. fat abstracted, and 6 per
cent. added water.
Withdrawn on payment of
costs, 17s. 6d.
969
„
13 per cent. added water
£25 and £3 3s. costs.
1163
Butter
100 per cent. margarine
Ordered to pay costs £1 10s.
1204
„
90 per cent. margarine
£2 and 17s. 6d. expenses.
1208
Milk
17 per cent. added water
£20 and £2 2s. costs.
SUMMARY.
£
s.
d.
£
i.
#]
First Quarter: Fines
15
10
0
Expenses 7
17
6
Second Quarter „
-
„
Third Quarter „
15
2
6
„ 8
1
0
Fourth Quarter „
47
4
6
„ 9
7
6
£77
17
0
£25
6
0
By direction of the Sanitary Committee seven persons were cautioned as to the questionable
or unsatisfactory character of articles sold by them.