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(c) In the case of any pipette or other test-bottle it is of
an approved pattern.

(2) Such authorized officer shall destroy any pipette or
bottle which, on being tested by him, is found to be, in his
opinion, insufficiently accurate for use in testing milk or
cream, and no compensation shall be payable by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture in respect of such destruction.

(3) Any person who submits any dairy glassware to an
authorized officer for testing shall on demand pay to the
Department of Agriculture fees as follows: Milk or cream
bottles, 2d. each; skim-milk bottles, 1s. each; pipettes, 3d.
each; and thermometers, 1s. each: plus postage in every
case.

122. The owner or tester shall not use any appliance for
     weighing samples of cream for testing, unless such appliance
     is of a type approved by an Inspector and in good working-
     order. Every weighing-appliance used in testing shall be
     sensitive to 0·06 grams (metric).

123. In testing samples of cream the amount put into the
     test-bottle shall be 9 grams or 18 grams in the case of the
     Babcock test, and 5 grams in the case of the Gerber test,
     and the correctness of the amount shall be ascertained by
     actual weighing.

124. (1) In testing milk or cream the test-bottles shall,
     prior to reading the percentage of butterfat, be so placed
     in a bath containing water having a temperature of 135 to
     140 degrees Fahrenheit that the water-level shall correspond
     with the top of the butterfat column of the test-bottles.
     The test-bottles shall be kept in the water-bath for a period
     of not less than three minutes and the reading shall be made
     within the range of the aforesaid temperatures immediately
     each test-bottle is removed from the water-bath.

(2) In testing milk the percentage of butterfat as read
from the Babcock test-bottle shall include the whole of the
fat from the bottom of the column to the highest point of
the meniscus.

(3) Fat-saturated alcohol, or oil of a lower specific gravity
than that of butterfat, shall in testing cream by the Babcock
method be used for levelling the meniscus of the butterfat
column in the test-bottle, and the reading shall be taken from
the bottom of the column of fat to the point of junction
between the fat and the levelling-fluid.

125. The owner, or an agent or agents appointed in writing
     by him for that purpose, shall on each day on which butter
     is made in the manufacturing dairy make an accurate record
     in ink or indelible pencil of the weight of butter made on
     that day, showing separately the weight packed in bulk and
     in pats, also of the weight of such butters delivered by the
     manufacturing dairy on that day. The owner or such agent
     shall sign and date each day’s record, and file it at the manu-
     facturing dairy or the owner’s office, and the owner shall
     keep it there for at least eighteen months after the close of
     the financial year to which it relates.

126. The owner shall make, and file at the manufacturing
     dairy or his office for at least eighteen months after the close
     of the financial year to which it relates, an accurate record
     daily, as near as may be, of the following particulars:—

(a) The weight in pounds, and the butterfat percentage,
by weight, of all milk or cream received from each
supplier;

(b) The weight in pounds of butterfat credited to each
supplier for each test, and for each month or other
period of payment;

(c) The number of pounds of butterfat purchased in any
form from persons other than suppliers and used in
the manufacture of butter or cheese, or sold as milk
or cream, or otherwise disposed of;

(d) The weight of butter purchased or received from other
manufacturing dairies or otherwise; and

(e) The weight of all butter disposed of, whether manu-
factured or purchased.

127. The owner shall at or prior to the time of each payment
     made or account rendered in respect of milk or cream to any
     of his suppliers furnish such supplier with a statement of the
     weight and test of his milk or cream, and the number of
     pounds of butterfat computed therefrom, for each testing-
     period covered by the payment or account; or, when payment
     is based on the weight and test of each can or single delivery,
     with a detailed statement of the weights, tests, and pounds
     of butterfat of the several lots being paid or accounted for.

128. Every owner of a cheese-factory or creamery shall,
     within twenty-one days after the close of each month in which
     he has manufactured any butter and/or cheese forward to
     the Director or to the officer of the Department of Agriculture
     appointed by the Director in that behalf a return signed and
     dated by him and showing—

(i) The total pounds of butterfat credited to his suppliers
during the preceding month and manufactured into
butter;

(ii) The total pounds of butterfat similarly credited and
manufactured into cheese in that month;

(iii) The total pounds of butter and/or cheese manufactured
in that month; and

(iv) The yield in pounds of butter and/or cheese manu-
factured from each pound of butterfat credited to
his suppliers in that month.

129. Any person who falsifies any record of a kind referred
     to in clauses 111 to 127 inclusive of these regulations; over-
     reads or under-reads any milk or cream weighing, or any
     Babcock, Gerber, or other test; fails to comply with the
     requirements hereinbefore prescribed in conducting any test;
     or in any other way makes any incorrect determination of
     butterfat, commits a breach of these regulations.

CHECK UPON SAMPLING, WEIGHING, TESTING, AND RECORDING.

130. An Inspector may at any reasonable time do any of
     the following things at or in connection with any manufacturing
     dairy:—

(a) Take without payment such quantities as may reason-
ably be required as samples of any lot of milk or
cream or milk-products wheresoever found, and may
weigh and test such samples.

(b) Examine and test any samples of milk or cream kept
in accordance with clauses 119 and 120 hereof for
retesting.

(c) Examine the records of receipts of milk, cream, butter-
fat, butter, or cheese; of all Babcock, Gerber, or
other tests made; of the weight of all butter or
cheese or other dairy-products manufactured daily;
and of the weight of butterfat for which any supplier
has been credited or paid.

131. The Inspector shall relock or reseal any container
     which has been unlocked or unsealed by him for the purposes
     of the last preceding clause.

INVESTIGATION OF OWNER’S ANNUAL STATEMENT TO
SUPPLIERS.

132. (1) Every application to the Minister under section 5
     of the Dairy Industry Amendment Act, 1922, for an investi-
     gation into the correctness of an owner’s certified annual
     statement to his suppliers shall be made in the form
     numbered 29 in the Schedule hereto.

(2) The approved security to be lodged under the provisions
of the last-mentioned section may be given by way of bond
for such amount as the Minister may in each case determine.

EXHIBITING ACTS AND REGULATIONS.

133. Every owner of a manufacturing dairy shall place
     and keep in each such dairy, in a conspicuous place accessible
     to any supplier of the dairy, a copy of the Dairy Industry
     Amendment Act, 1922, and of these regulations.

DUTIES AND PENALTIES.

134. Where a duty is directly or by implication imposed
     by these regulations and it is not specified in the said regu-
     lations by whom it shall be performed, the owner concerned
     shall at all times be responsible for its due observance or
     performance.

135. Any owner of a manufacturing dairy, or any purchaser,
     seller, or collector of milk, cream, or other dairy-products,
     or any carrier or storage-owner dealing with milk, cream, or
     such products, who refuses admission to, or hinders, any
     Inspector in the exercise of his duty, or who refuses or neglects
     to render such reasonable assistance as may be required by
     an Inspector in that respect, commits a breach of these
     regulations.

136. Every person commits a breach of these regulations
     who—

(a) Fails to observe or perform any duty directly or by
implication placed upon him by these regulations; or

(b) Does anything contrary to the provisions thereof; or

(c) Not being an officer in the exercise of his duty alters
or obliterates, or causes to be altered or obliterated,
any owner’s brand, any grade-mark, or any record
or document made or used in pursuance of these
regulations; or

(d) Counterfeits any such brand, grade-mark, record, or
document; or

(e) Empties, or partially empties, or otherwise interferes
with, the contents of any package or thing marked
in pursuance of these regulations in order to put
therein or substitute therefor any other contents; or

(f) Improperly uses any previously marked package or
thing for the purpose of representing or implying
that the marks thereon are valid; or

(g) Places or causes to be placed on any dairy-produce, or
on any package containing or intended to contain
dairy-produce, or on any docket, return, schedule,
record, or document relating to dairy-produce, any
brand, mark, indication, or statement that is false