SHORT-WEIGHT SCALES.
j CIIIXESE HAWKER FIXED. (By Telegraph. -IVpss Association.) WIiLLIXGTON'. this day. Sam I.oe. a Chinese vendor of vegetiiblcs, was fined £">, with costs, by the Magistrate. Mr. Wilson, on a charge of having si spring balance which was not registered. Inspector Oohns stated that Leo hawked vegetables from house to house, and. used scales reoisteriiig half; t a pound short weight. I The Magistrate said he was pleaded I that a prosecution of tlm kind had been instituted. There »as a ncoe>-=itv f" r nnopasiro- vicilani-e in iv-r*vt of travel line rpliiinr* of pnod*. Ft wac a ~hamp that poor workinp pcoii!<- siiflVreH throiiffh t!ie ra~raliry of some of th"~p people. Thr initpoctor intimated that a 1 number of similar cases would follow. ,
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 125, 29 May 1922, Page 5
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