Police Court yesterday. The charges were: 1. That the accused on March 19 sold milk without first obtaining a licence from the BAC, contrary to the Land Regulations. 2. That on March 18 the accused sold adulterated milk to which water had been added to Woo Sung Sai at 138 Kwenming Road. 3. That the accused had, on
possession for sale, milk March 19, at 83 Wi ed, in his water had been added. The second and third offences were contrary to Section 24 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1938.
The defendant was fined $20 for the first offence and $5 each for the second and third offences and allowed one Said he: matter and must agree in view of the there, I hold it does apply."
Danger to Public Mr. P. Watkin Williams, who pro-secured the case for the SMC., stressed the danger to which the public was exposed by the sale of unlicensed milk. He said that string gent regulations were necessary to protect the public from such ills as tuberculosis. The Milk and Dairies Regulations of the S.M.C. provided for the licoricing of all dairies. The accused was charged with having sold milk without a licence and the milk which he is alleged to have sold was adulterated with water. Unless compliance with the regulations was vigorously enforced the SIME. could not protect the public and it was in the vital interests of the public that a penalty as heavy as the law permits be imposed.
Mr. G. V. Volchkoff, food inspector attached to the Public Health Department of the SMC. testified that on March 18 he had seized a quantity of milk from a shop at 138 Kwenming Road. He had the milk analyzed and on the following day he saw a bicycle with milk bags suspended from it at the entrance to 83 Wayside Road. He saw the accused in the house and asked him to what rooms he had delivered milk.. The officer took quart bottles of milk from the occupants of Rooms 4 and 10 and asked the accused.|to accompany him to Wayside Police Station.
Woo Sung Sai, Chinese shopkeeper at 138 Kwenming Road, said that he had been: buying milk from the achis|cused until. one month and seven or eight days ago. He paid 25 cents a pint for the milk and the price was later increased to 30 cents a pint. The Indian delivered the milk to him every morning at 6 am. on a bicycle. On March 18 a Russian food inspector of the S.M.C. entered his shop and took away the milk which he had bought from the accused.
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