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Legal Proceedings
Legal proceedings were taken in the following instances:—
A firm of greengrocers was summonsed for selling a tin of soup
on the weekly half-holiday, in contravention of the provisions of the
Shops Act, 1950. They were granted an absolute discharge on
payment of £3 3s. Od. costs.
A grocer was prosecuted for selling and having exposed for sale,
maggoty marshmallows. A fine of £5 0s. Od. and £1 Is. Od. costs
were imposed on each of the two summonses.
A fine of £5 0s. Od. with £5 5s. Od. costs was imposed on a
firm of dairymen in respect of foreign matter in a quart bottle of milk.
The occupier of a slaughterhouse was summonsed on two occasions,
the first being for non-removal of offal and filth; lack of
cleanliness and failure to notify intention to slaughter. He was fined
£5 0s. Od. on each of 6 summonses. On the second occasion he was
fined £5 0s. Od. on each of eight summonses relating to lack of
cleanliness in the slaughterhouse, and an Order was made by the
Magistrates for the recovery of the sum of £5 10s. Od., being the
cost of removing offal and filth. In addition, £3 3s. Od. costs and
£2 0s. Od. other expenses were allowed and his licence was cancelled.
The occupier of a motor vehicle which was used for sleeping purposes
by herself and her daughter was summonsed for failing to abate
the nuisance and was fined £2 0s. Od. for non-compliance of the
abatement notice and given 14 days to abate the nuisance.
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