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INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE
INTEREST ACTS.
Five applications were received during the year from
tenants lor certificates under Section 2, Sub-section 2, of
the above Act, as compared with 5 during 1930.
The premises were subjected to a careful inspection and
a specification of any necessary repairs was prepared in
each case and forwarded to the owner, together with a
suitable covering letter. This informal action usually had
a satisfactory result, but in 2 cases it was necessary to
issue formal certificates to the tenants giving details of
the works which should be carried out to put each of the
dwelling houses into a reasonable state of repair within
the meaning of the Act.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
(a) Milk Supply.
During 1931, two persons were removed from the
register of Dairies owing to business changes, but two
fresh registrations were permitted. Hence the total number
of 41 at the end of December, 1931, remained unchanged
from the previous year. There is only one cowkeeper in
the Borough.
No milk producer in the district is licensed in respect
of Graded Milk, but no less than 20 licenses have been
issued to retail dairymen to sell Graded Milk. This
number compares with 13 for the previous year, and if it
is an indication that there is a growing demand for Graded
Milk it may be regarded as highly satisfactory.
In my last annual report, attention was drawn to the
urgent need for a more simple and clear method of designating
Graded Milk. This plea for a new system has found
supporters in almost every part of the country, but so far
it appears not to have received favourable consideration
by the Department concerned. Until the designations are
changed there must be confusion in the public mind as
to the respective merit of the Graded Milks. The correct
order is as follows: (1) Certified, (2) Grade "A" (Tuberculin
Tested), (3) Grade "A," (4) Grade "A" Pasteurised,
and (5) Pasteurised Milk. It will be seen that Grade "A,"
which many people believe to be the best, is, in fact, only
third on the list.