A DAB OF BUTTER.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 224, 20 September 1915, Page 2

A DAB OF BUTTER.

THE SHORT-WEIGHT CASES. SHORTAGE TIKI TRIFLIXG TO MATI'KK. if a |>oiiiid of butter be divided in ', sixteen parts, and each part iif!aili],s! divided into MXtccn parts, the rc.sultuntj\ minute piece, will represent "drachms," j whirl, formed the foundation of eharjiesj,. by (he Health Department ajtaiiiett «cv- r era I retailer- for M-lliiijf Khort-wei{»lit 1,, l.iitti r. I I vidpiice in the .'harjriM] 1, showed [hat Ihe butter wan sohl in pound m pack.-ts. as ri'ci'ivi'il from the dairy fa,- j tor.,--. .111.1 that the shortage in the -,-v | t riiil iii7.laii.i-. ranged from I draclnn t.,'(; ■>i ilra.'linw p.r pound. It »n- OUI S -liottii ih.ii |h',* hlinrtHge. rppn-Ki'iiliiiK o lllxjll! a ".1.i:." of l.utter in racll .M.c '\- ilelieienei ,11 the ■poundiiii!' , iimeliin'ery. t which .-in the bii'l; butter into pnmiil *' lot.-. !.v n r-liyhl loss in nciaht thro'iffhl the butter !..-in- kept in the f /.i-r. t Hi- Wor-hip Mr V., I. lutten. -\l.. - the eh.ir«cs aisuiiift \K. llutchin-ioii. K.|r Kew. and M. I H.iin. in which he -.ii.1 1 - he could not s.-e hir- way to convict .1, ■' an;, of the ,11-ph. The,,-v, 1~.-,-.,■~.-,-. I,- snid.jo shoved that the fietori.-. did n .( make sulli.-ieiit a:;.... in,,-,, for |,».s of -,v •■ l.r j ' tween (he (ime the hiiiter ii»s mad- 11:. ' an 1 Ihe tune it reach- I the huiiiM of t , i- I 1 retail piin-liawr. It -.-, ■,:,■ I t,, 1,.,,, \ \,\ - the fact-..;.- should ..,-,■; I, v|>, t| l( . ic H ■pie-: of Ihe llealt'i Department. an.hmirk each pa \-t of :.ii|t.-r a-- -ontii 11 ny I 1.".}../, in t Ihe -l-Ttliae in the cases ' broueht f.o >a-.l wn- ~. ver> -lijrht. r .in-j ilk! fro'll 1 I . .lit. d.r.MI to Hnllii'thllia] le-o. thai he ,\ 1- lilrt .ir,| ::, di>iiiirs Ir- I the chaa'.* ..- [rilling, liie | n»e."it inn I •"■ah:. I ■>.-:. l.c reaarded as a warn