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Hospital Milk
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, September 25.
INDIAN milk vendors have recently been forming something like a procession to the Suva Magistrate’s Court to answer charges of selling adulterated or below-standard milk.
The head of the Nasinu Dairy Com pany, with ten convictions at various times in the last few years, is now reported to have relinquished his job.
The company was found by a Health Inspector to have been, supplying watered milk to the Tamavua Tuberculosis Hos pital and the Colonial War Memorial Hospital under a Government contract, as well as to the general public.
A court defence has been put forward that dairy proprietors are unable to pre vent the watering of milk by their em ployees—an argument which is not sym pathetically received by those who pay for a watered product Further, in the Suva area at least, the quality of the water is known to be deplorable.
Whether the adulteration is done with or without the knowledge of the pro prietors of the dairy businesses, the fact remains that the public and Government institutions have been paying substan tially for water. The victimisation of the Tamavua Hospital in particular has roused the highest indignation in a com munity which has been compelled to be come TB-conscious.
The Royal New Zealand Air Force Cata lina which was damaged when she struck a reef just before taking off at Vila last month was successfully repaired and is back at Laucala Bay. Fiji.