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The initial costs and working expenses amounted to £129 4s.
5d., leaving £401 17s. 8d. for distribution on the terms agreed,
viz., 50 per cent, of the profits to be given to the men, which
resulted in £202 8s. lOd. being shared by 28 men.
ENFORCEMENT OF THE FOOD CONTROL ORDERS.
The Sanitary Inspectors have, during the period of control,
carried out the work of enforcement, and during the year 1918
were responsible for bringing 53 cases before the Court for contravention
of the various orders made by the Food Controller.
The fines and costs resulting from these cases amount to £414
7s. 6d. The offences chiefly comprised overcharging, giving short
weight or measure, or imposing a condition of sale.
The articles principally affected were meat, whisky, beer,
milk, potatoes, flour, and jam.
In many instances the price charged was correct, but either
the weight or measurement was short, thus increasing the price of
the commodity. This applies principally to milk and spirits.
Some of the oases were for selling beer below the specific gravity
provided by the Order.
In many of the meat cases, the prosecution was for charging
above the maximum price, and in isolated oases wrong descriptions
were given. In one case that was dismissed the butcher was
summoned fo selling a middle rib and charging wing rib price.
The Stipendiary, after viewing in Court the different ribs of