§ MR. CLARE READasked Mr. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Whether a bond fide farmer, who sells milk and keeps cows hi an urban sanitary district is compelled to register his cow-hoses, &c. under the Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops Order of 1879; and, if so, whether he is exempt from such registration if, although selling milk within the said district, his cowsheds happen to be outside it?
§ MR. DODSONSir, the local authority under the Order, or, rather, under the Act of 1878, is the Quarter Session in a county, the Town Council in a municipal borough. The registration which each local authority is to require and enforce is a registration not of premises, but of persons carrying on, in the district of the local authority, the trade of cow-keepers, dairymen, or purveyors of milk. A bond fide farmer who carries on this trade is to be registered in the same way as anyone else. The district in which the trade is carried on is, as I am. advised, the district in which the principal or central seat of the trade is situated, not every district in which any portion of the milk is distributed.