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SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS, PUBLIC HEALTH (PRESERVATIVES, ETC., IN FOOD)
REGULATIONS, PUBLIC HEALTH (MILK AND CREAM) REGULATIONS, PUBLIC HEALTH
(CONDENSED MILK) REGULATIONS AND PUBLIC HEALTH (DRIED MILK) REGULATIONS.
RESULTS OF PROSECUTIONS.
First Quarter.
Sample. Nature and Extent of Adulteration. Result.
168 Liniment of Turpentine 44 per cent. deficient in Rectified Oil £5 and £1 1s. Costs.
of Turpentine.
Second Quarter.
454 Butter (on bread) Selling as butter on bread a substance £2 and £1 1s. Costs.
containing 93% Margarine.
512 Milk 14 per cent. of original fat abstracted £3 3s. and £2 2s. Costs.
513 Milk 27 per cent. of original fat abstracted £3 3s. and £2 2s. Costs.
516 Milk 20 per cent. of original fat abstracted £3 3s. and £2 2s. Costs.
518 Milk 17 per cent. of original fat abstracted 10s. and £1 1s. Costs.
522 Malt Vinegar 70 per cent. deficient in Acetic Acid £2 2s. and £1 1s. Costs.
572 Liniment of Turpentine 89 per cent. deficient in Rectified Oil £2 and £2 2s. Costs.
of Turpentine.
547 Milk 15 per cent. of original fat abstracted £1 and £1 1s. Costs.
Third Quarter.
678 Milk 22 per cent. of original fat abstracted £2 and £2 2s. Costs.
Fourth Quarter.
717 Calomel Ointment Entirely deficient in Mercurous Chloride £5 and £2 2s. Costs.
and containing 4.6 per cent. Ammoniated
Mercury.
741 Preservative Powder 0.3 per cent. Boric Acid £1 and £2 2s. Costs.
for Sausages.
779 Milk 5 per cent. added water and 8 per cent. £1 and £3 11s. 6d. Costs.
of the original fat abstracted.
859 Milk 11 per cent. added water £2 and £2 12s. 6d. Costs.

SUPERVISION OF THE ICE CREAM TRADE.
The usual inspections in connection with the manufacture or sale of Ice Cream within
the City have been carried out. In all cases where manufacture took place in other areas,
the appropriate local authority was informed of the circumstance and requested to state
if the premises and process of manufacture were satisfactory. Replies to these enquiries
show that in practically every instance the conditions were found to be satisfactory. In
those few instances where this was not the case, sanitary improvements were ultimately
effected.
The Barrows or Stalls of itinerant vendors were inspected periodically, and in those
instances where lack of cleanliness of the utensils was observed, the administration of a
caution invariably resulted in appropriate steps being taken to remedy the defect.
MEAT INSPECTION.
The following tabulated report has been prepared by Mr. T. Dunlop Young, Veterinary
Surgeon:—
1. Beef.—According to the Board of Trade statistics for the year 1927, the total amount
of beef imported was 671,797 tons, of which over 77 per cent. arrived in a chilled condition
and 23 per cent. frozen. Those figures show the increasing demand for chilled against
frozen, there being an increase of 36,000 tons in the quantity of the former and a decrease
of 25,000 tons in the latter. Imported tinned and canned beef, tongues, extracts, etc.,
derived from bovines amounted to 50,000 tons.