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During the year an application was received for a milk vendor tobe registered in this district.
During the period which his application was under discussion he was purveying milk in the
district and sundry infringements of the Acts covering a milk vendor's business were perpetrated.
His record was such that the Council decided to refuse his application. He had been convicted in
at least two different names in four different Courts for a series of offences which were as follows :—
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
(11)
(12)
(13)
(14)
(15)
(16)
Selling milk from which 12% original fat had
been abstracted.
12% fat abstracted.
Selling skimmed milk to which colouring
matter had been added on 9/1/22.
Selling milk to which colouring matter had
been added on 18/1/22.
Ditto
on 20/1/22.
Ditto
on 24/1/22.
Ditto
on 6/2/22.
Selling skimmed milk to which colouring
matter had been added.
Selling separated milk to which colouring
matter had been added.
Ditto
(aiding and abetting).
Selling skimmed milk to which colouring
matter had been added.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Selling milk from a vehicle which had not his
name and address inscribed thereon.
Selling milk from a hand cart which had not
his name and address inscribed thereon.
Aiding and abetting three other defendants
in the use of his (X) dairy without the other
defendants being registered in respect of
the premises.
Fined £3 3s. and £1 Is. costs.
Fined £3 3s. and 10s. 6d. costs.
Fined £7 and £1 Is. costs.
Fined £1 and £1 Is. costs.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Fined £7 and £1 ls. costs.
Fined £4 and £2 costs.
Fined £4.
Fined £7 and £1 ls. costs.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Fined £2 and £1 ls. costs.
Fined 10s. and 21s. costs.
Fined £10 and £10 10s. costs.
His application was made in the name of " X.X. " It was proved that although he applied
for registration in this name, it was not his own name, and there was no registration under the Registration
of Business Names Act, 1916. He had stated on the application form that it was his full
christian name and surname.
The practice of the individual in question is to buy surplus supplies of bulk milk largely at the
Railway Stations, where it is delivered, and to sell it at about 2d. a quart under the customary local
price.
It was proved that rounds were rapidly worked up in this way and then sold, and it was also
known that in one case the money paid had been refunded as a result of action by the purchaser, on
the ground that sale was fraudulent by reason of a breach of warranty.
The following report of the cross examination is illuminating.
Question : What is the milk you are selling now ?
Answer : It is pasteurised, but I sell it as ordinary milk.
Question : What is the difference between pasteurised and sterilized milk ?
Answer : I do not know.
Question : Does the public know it is " Pasteurised milk " ?
Answer : No, I sell it as " ordinary milk."
Question : You sell it as " fresh milk " ?
Answer : No, I sell it as " milk."
The analysis of samples of the milk by means of the three recognised tests showed
Soluble Albumin—0.053%
Milk Sugar—3.96% (Polarimeter).
4.01% (Gravimetrically).
Paraphenylene-diamine Test—No coloration.
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