As a result of the previous day's pro-coedings, in which a Mixed Court runner was convicted and heavily punished for legally serving a summons and extorting money, the charge against the proprietor of the Yah Kee Dairy for adulterating milk was reheard.
Inspector Matheson gave the Assessor! 'a resume of what had taken place at the previous day's proceedings, and mentioned the fact that when the case was first heard on the 19th instant the actual defendant did not appear, but sent a substitute to take his place.
The Assessor said that the personating of the defendant was an additional often:
Inspector Matheson said that the runner was really to blame for the impersonation, as it was done on his instructions.
The actual defendant, the proprietor of the dairy, now appeared and was ordered to kneel before the bench.
Mr. Sturmann, the complainant, said that finding his milk, supplied to him by Yah Keo, was bad in quality, he went downstairs one morning and took pottle from the milkman's basket. The' bottle was securely sealed and stamped "Y. K? He took it upstairs and put! it on the table in his bedroom so that no one could interfere with it. He of wards took it to the office and on arri there wrote a chit to Dr. Stanley askin, him to test the milk. He sent the chit and the bottle of milk to Dr. Stanley by his office boy. On receipt of Dr. Stanley's report that the milk was adulterated with 40 per cent of water, witness went to the U. 8. Consulate and said he wished to institute proceedings against the dairyman, As a result of this the charge came on for hearing on Tuesday. Witness was not aware that the prosecution should have gone through the Health Depart.' ment or the Police. Dr. Stanley had told him that the Health Department could not under the circumstances take pro-
Mr. T. N. Hugall, Inspector of Dairies, etc,, said he would like to explain how it was the Health Department could not take proceedings. They only undertook the prosecution when the samples were taken by their own officials. In such cases, the Inspector took a sample himself, Kept it securely sealed, and himself handed it to the Health Officer for analysis. The bottle never left the Inspector's possession until it was handed to the Health Officer. In the case of private persons taking samples, there was no guarantee that the sample had not been interfered with between the time that it left the vendor's possession and the time it reached the Health Officer for analysis. In some cases small quantities of milk had been forwarded to the Health Officer in dirty bottles. Under such circums-
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