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throughout your district, and also exhibited by the various
shopkeepers, drawing public attention to the week in question,
and asking for special efforts to be made for the destruction of
the vermin.
A supply of Bulletin No. 30 issued by the Ministry of
Agriculture and Fisheries was also available for applicants.
Shops Acts.—During the year 160 visits were made to
various shop premises in the area, and the register was duly
amended from time to time as far as practicable.
Warnings were necessary to shopkeepers in some cases,
particularly in regard to non-observance of closing hours of
certain businesses, and the display of required notices as
prescribed by the Acts.
Housing Act, 1936, Section 62: Measurement of Houses.—
Two temporary Measuring Assistants were engaged solely on
this work. Their services were dispensed with in August, by
which date, as far as could be ascertained, all rented properties
in the district coming within the scope of the Act had been
measured, these numbering 3,950.
By this measurement survey it has been possible to build
up a system of records which should serve a very valuable
purpose in the future.
By the end of the year the total number of Certificates
issued to landlords on application was 1,007, embracing 1,626
properties.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops.—One Dairy Farm was
removed from the Register during 1937 owing to the premises
becoming vacant, and one farm changed ownership. The
occupier of one farm was licensed by the appropriate authority
for the production of Accredited milk.
The number of cowsheds in use at the end of the year was
24, the number of Dairies being 15.
The number of inspections made to the 15 Farms was 109,
and premises, etc., generally were found in good order, the
half-yearly cleansing and limewashing being carried out
without exception.
Action was necessary to obtain the removal of a large
accumulation of manure, and the proper cleansing of milking
stools at one farm.
Eighteen samples of Graded Milk, seven Tuberculin Tested
and 11 Accredited were taken from Licensed Farms during the
year and submitted, as required, for bacteriological examination,