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with the result that the Bill received the Royal Assent on 

 10th August. Mr. Middleton and Mr. Sadler were the two 

 representatives deputed by the Dairy Products Committee 

 to lay their views before Mr. Samuel. On the invitation of 

 the latter the Vice-Chairman (Mr. Charles Bathurst) accom- 

 panied them. The effect of the Act upon the production of 

 milk and the industry generally will largely depend upon the 

 character of the Milk and Dairies Orders to be made under 

 the Act, which orders are to be made by the Local Government 

 Board in concurrence with the Board of Agriculture, and it 

 is to be hoped that the same reasonableness and moderation 

 which was shown in framing the Act will also be shown in 

 framing these Orders. The Act comes into operation on 1st 

 October, 1915. At the expiration of one year after this Act 

 is put into operation so much of all local Acts as deal with 

 any of the matters dealt with by this Act are repealed. Sec- 

 tion 9 of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1886 (under 

 which the Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops Orders are 

 issued), is also repealed directly this Act comes into operation, 

 as are also Section 28 of the Public Health (London) Act, 

 1891, and that part of the second schedule of the London 

 Government Act, 1899. It was in 1898 that the Council 

 first asked for a general Act dealing with this subject, since 

 which date it has been continuously pressed upon the Govern- 

 ment of the day. 



A deputation which met the President of the Board of 

 Agriculture on 26th January, 1915, asked, inter alia, that 

 Orders under this Act might be circulated sufficiently early 

 to enable the Chambers to consider them. Lord Lucas replied 

 that it was a very reasonable request, that he would do what 

 he could to get an early publication of the Orders, and that he 

 quite agreed with the suggestion. 



Marking Foreign Meat. 



The whole question of adulteration is, of course, included 

 under the heading " Fraudulent Competition," but it is a 

 hydra-headed monster, and we must now turn to another 

 phase of it the sale of foreign goods as British produce. 



