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Milk. The Milk & Dairies (General) Regulations, 1959.
Apart from small quantities bottled on the farms, milk sold
in the larger Urban areas is collected in the distant producing areas
and transported in bulk to large processing plants situate in the
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.
3 complaints of dirty milk bottles were passed to the Authority
in whose area the milk was bottled.
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, 1960, the
following licences to sell milk continued in force during the year.
Dealer's Pre-packed Licences 12
Dealer's (Pasteuriser's) Licence 1
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