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consuming centres where it is pasteurised or sterilised and bottled
for sale by a comparatively few large dairy companies.
Residents in this district rely in the main on these sources
of supply, there being only one registered dairy now operating in
the Council's area.
General control by the Department is exercised under the
above regulations and only pasteurised, tuberculin tested or
sterilised milk can be sold in the district as a result of a Special
Designations Order made in 1951.
The entries in the register, which has to be kept, were as
follows:—
Distributors of Milk in the District 17
Premises registered as Dairies 1
Under the Milk (Special Designation) Regulations, 1949-1954,
the following licences to sell milk were issued during the year
Dealers: Supplementary :
Tuberculin Tested Tuberculin Tested 8
Pasteurised 22 Pasteurised 8
Sterilised 17 Sterilised 6
Pasteuriser's 1
New Regulations came into force on 1st October, 1960 and
as from 1st January, 1961 new forms of licence will be issued
whereby dealers licences issued on or after that date will be valid
for five years from that date, and will be renewable for subsequent
quinquennial periods. The issue of supplementary licences will,
in future, be discontinued as dealers' licences will no longer restrict
sales to the area of the licencing Authority.
A total of 182 samples of milk was submitted for bacteriological
examination, with the results set out in the following
table :—