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penalties imposed. The result of the proceedings which the 

 Commissioners of Customs considered it their duty to undertake 

 has been a great improvement in the character of the butter 

 imported from certain quarters on the Continent. 



Apart from imported dairy produce, a number of samples, 

 mainly of butter and butter adulterants, were obtained from 

 various sources. 



Certain of the samples related to the materials used by a 

 " scientific " butter adulterator, who offered for sale his process 

 for manipulation of butter. He was subsequently prosecuted, 

 and committed for trial on charges for inciting to commit a 

 felony, but failing to appear, his bail of £800 was estreated. 



Other samples were butter coming from a particular creamery, 

 and found on examination to be adulterated. On the 

 strength of the evidence furnished by the Laboratory report, 

 search warrants were granted by magistrates, and the entire 

 process of the adulteration of the butter was found in operation 

 on the creamery premises. 



Sections 53 and 54 of the Public Health Acts Amendment 

 Act, 1907, which comes into operation on 1st January, 1908, 



contain provisions affecting dairymen in 

 Dairymen and Sources connection with cases of infectious disease, 

 of Milk Supply. Section 53 provides that (1) if the medical 



officer certifies to the local authority that 

 any person in the district is suffering from infectious disease 

 which the medical officer has reason to suspect is attributable 

 to milk supplied within the district, the local authority may 

 require the dairyman supplying the milk to furnish to the 

 medical officer within a reasonable time fixed by them a com- 

 plete list of all the farms, dairies, or places from which his 

 supply of milk is derived or has been derived during the last 

 six weeks, and, if the supply, or any part of it, is obtained 

 through any other dairyman, may make a similar requisition 

 upon that dairyman ; (2) the local authority shall pay to the 

 dairyman for every list furnished by him under this section 

 the sum of 6d., and, if the list contains not less than twenty-five 

 names, a further sum of 6d. for every twenty-five names 

 ^contained in the list ; and (3) every dairyman shall comply 



