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Table 2.-Showing Inspection of Premises engaged in selling or manufacturing Foodstuffs during the Year ended 31st December, 1934.

Table 3.—Legal Proceedings for Year, 1934. Number of Amount of Fines Prosecutions. and Costs. £ s. d. Milk below standard .. .. . ■ • . .. 49 145 211 Milk, added water . . . . • • • ■ 45 197 16 1 Milk, stale .. .. ..10 25 18 6 Milk, dirty .. .. • ■ • • H 36 10 8 Butter, excess moisture .. ... • • .. 2 5 13 0 Butter, labelling .. ■ . ■ ■ ■ . . 3 13 13 6 Ice-cream below standard . . . . • • .. 1 1 10 6 Paraffin oil below standard . . . . • ■ • • 7 25 14 2 Camphorated oil below standard .. .. 6 7 16 0 Camphorated oil, labelling .. . . • • • • 4 611 8 Excess preservative in sausage meat . . .. 1 34 6 Food premises (Regulation H. 125) ... .. . . 2 4 5 0 Failure to vacate premises while closure order in force . . 2 12 0 Dangerous Drugs Regulations .. .. . • . . 11 42 3 9 Plumbing and Drainage Regulations ' . . 1 1 10 0 Plumbers Registration Act .. .. ..1 100 Cemeteries Act .. ■ . • ■ ■ ■ • • 1 0 .12 0 Breach of borough by-laws .. .. ■■ ..1 0170 Totals ..158 £521 1 3

T. R. Ritchie, Director, Division of Public Hygiene.

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Number of Premises inspected N amber of Number of engaged in the such Premises Instances Goods Health District. Selling or found to have were "seized" Manufacture of j Defects. or " destroyed." Foodstuffs. North Auckland .. ■■ 1,013 104 3 Central Auckland .. •• •• 1,209 172 31 South Auckland .. •• •• 2,408 212 2 Thames-Tauranga .. . • • • • • 256 22 Taranaki .. • • • • • ■ • • 118 26 1 East Cape .. ■ • • • • • • ■ 771 177 1 Wanganui-Horowhenua . . • • • • 428 45 48 Wairarapa - Hawke's Bay . . . ■ • • 272 29 ! 5 Central Wellington . . . • • • • • 522 46 100 Nelson-Marlborough .. . • • • • • j 590 68 Canterbury .. •• •• j 1,421 4 4 West Coast .. ■ • • • • • • • i 914 51 7 Otago ! 2,177 249 15 Southland ■ • ■ ■ 705 29 [ 8 Totals .. •• • ■ 12,804 1,234 j 226