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Legal Proceedings.
It was found necessary to institute legal proceedings in two instances
where food was being sold which was unfit for human consumption.
In the first instance, pineapples were being sold and exposed for sale
in an unfit condition. Proceedings were taken before the Magistrates at Mortlake,
and the defendant was fined £2 on each of two counts, and ordered to pay costs.
In the second instance, ice cream was sold, on unregistered premises,
which was unfit for human consumption by reason of weevil infestation. In
addition considerable quantities of cereals were found to be infested on examination.
The ice cream and the cereals were seized, and condemned by a Justice
of the Peace.
The defendant was brought before the Mortlake Magistrates and fined
total of £40, with six guineas cost.