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169

£
s.
d.
Allowance to Analyst
75
0
0
Purchase of samples, &c
13
0
£75
13
0
Fines recovered
8
15
0
Net cost to the Parish
£66
18
0
SUMMARY PROCEEDINGS.
Summonses have been taken out for the following
offences: —
Adulteration 9
Unsanitary condition of premises 8
Letting or occupying cellar dwellings 3
Obstructions 15
Erecting hoard without license 1
Non-payment of cost of reinstating pavement, &c. 1
Exposing unsound fruit for sale 2
Defective grating 1
Total 40
Three of the summonses were dismissed; in each of the
other cases, fines were inflicted, orders made, or the necessary
works carried out before the hearing of the summons. The
summonses which were dismissed were all taken out under
the Sale of Food and Drugs Act ; in two of these cases the
reserved sample was submitted on the application of the
defendants to the Analysts of the Inland Revenue Department,
who reported that, in their judgment, the samples were free
from adulteration ; the defence, in the third case, failing on
its merits, rested on the technical liability of the person summoned,
and the magistrate decided in favour of the defendant,
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