The Public Wealth authorities brought another milk cage before the Mixed' Court last Friday, Magistrate Tsang and Mr. Mead, British Assessor, on the bench.
Mr. Terrill, health inspector, said that the accused was a coolie, employed in an unlicensed dairy without a name at Hu Kai Chiao, outside the Settlement, who was found delivering milk in Chaoufoong Road and Seward Road early on Thursday morning. He had in his possession a delivery ticket which had been borrowed from the China Trust Dairy. Accused's employer formerly owned the Ni Chi Dairy, a licensed dairy in Chaoufoong Road which was closed by the Commissioner of Public Health on account of contraventions of licence conditions. A householder, on December 23 last, submitted a) sample of the milk from the dairy where the accused was employed and, upon analysis, this was found to be adulterated with 24.2 per cent. of water. The stamp used in the present instance to seal the milk bottles was similar to that used by the Trust Dairy, only slightly smaller. Inspector Terrill said that be did not wish to see the coolie, who was only a servant, punished for an offence for which his employer was really responsible and suggested that a warrant be issued for the arrest of the proprietor of the dairy.
The accused satd that he had been employed as a delivery coolie for two weeks only, but he thought that his master borrowed the delivery ticket' from a place in Frenchtown three months ago.
The Court, after consulation, fined the accused $25 with the alternative of two weeks in prison, and issued a summons for the proprie-for of the dairy for selling goods in the Settlement under a false mark, After half an hour later, the accused appeared in Court, accompanied by a detective and his employer who had come to pay his fine. The latter was put into the' dock, but said that he was employed by another man.
Inspector Terrill said that he saw the man follow the first accused out of the Courtroom and pull out $25. He had admitted then that he was master of the dairy and said he borrowed the delivery ticket for $30 a month.
The man was then placed on $250 security and was ordered to be present next week to answer the charge of fraud which had been preferred against him.
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