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Milk and Dairies Regulations.
Twelve dairies have been registered under the above Regulations.
Details of the licences issued during 1959 are :—
Tuberculin Tested
Pasteurised
Sterilised
Dealer's Licences 13
Supplementary Licences 3
Dealer's Licences 26
Supplementary Licences 4
Dealer's Licences 31
Supplementary Licences 3
Twelve visits were made to the dairies in the district during
1959.
Slaughterhouses and Slaughtermen.
No slaughterhouses were licensed during the year, but licences
were issued to nine slaughtermen under the Slaughter of Animals
Act, 1958.
Restaurants, Hotels and Canteens.
One hundred and thirty visits were made to these premises
during the year. In ten cases defects requiring the attention of the
owner were dealt with by informal action.
Butchers' Shops.
One hundred and sixty-eight detailed inspections were made of
the 48 retail butchers' shops in the area.
The butchers work in close collaboration with the Public
Health Department and during the year called upon the services of
the District Inspectors in connection with carcase meat suspected of
being unsound, as a result of which 357 lbs. of meat was condemned
as being unfit for human consumption. In no case was there any
evidence of unsound meat being exposed for sale.
Bakehouses.
Twenty-seven inspections were made of the 13 premises during
the year, and in only two cases were defects found which required the
attention of this department.
Merchandise Marks Act.
Forty-seven visits were paid to premises during the year in connection
with this Act. No contraventions were detected.
Game Act, 1831.
Three licences were renewed during the year.