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on October 2nd, when the magistrate allowed the defendant
a further time of 6 weeks. The defendant was arrested on
leaving the Police Court and, at the present time, is said to
be in prison for non-payment of rates.
The owner of 18, Paddington Street was summoned
for letting kitchens illegally. The magistrate gave time for
the rooms to be vacated, stating that in default the full
penalty would be enforced. The order was obeyed.
Prosecution under the Housing of the Working
Classes Act.
The owner of No. 6, Gees Court was summoned under
the above Act, and a closing order obtained. Certain
tenants did not obey the order, hence it was necessary to
summon these tenants for disobedience of the magistrate's
order. The premises are now closed.
The Laboratory—Sale of Food and Drugs Act.
150 samples of various foods and drugs (see Table
XII) have been examined, but not a single certificate
of adulteration has been given. A sample of coffee, it is
true, had a small admixture of chicory, and a sample of milk
might have been certified to contain some 2 per cent. of
water. There were, however, doubts in each case as to Wilful
adulteration.
The present blank record is particularly satisfactory
with regard to dairy produce, as a great proportion of the
samples were collected in the streets on Sunday—a day
which used to be specially selected by a certain class of
milk-sellers for operating on the milk, believing that they
could do so with impunity.