Suva’S Milk-Waterers
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Carry On
ONE of Suva’s minor mysteries is why milk vendors, repeatedly convicted of selling impure milk, and repeatedly caught red handed, are still permitted to carry on their businesses.
Counsel for one such offender some time ago, made the interest ing plea that as the proportion of water was much less in the offence under consideration than in a pre vious offence, accused should be treated moderately!
Another Way Of Getting
More Milk
Fiji Department of Agriculture, meantime, is spending £l,OOO on fertilisers to be applied to 20 acres of each of three dairy farms near Suva, to demonstrate to the far mers that the milk production of cows can be greatly increased.
The Department believes that the 21 registered dairies supplying milk to Suva could increase their present output from 200,000 gallons to 350,000 gallons per annum.
This could save the dairymen the necessity of adding water to their supplies before retailing them to the public.