SHORT-WEIGHT BREAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 102, 2 May 1930, Page 10

SHORT-WEIGHT BREAD.

NOT TO BE SOLD IN FUTURE. ARRANGEMENTS CANCELLED. COMPLAINTS IN PARLIAMENT. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day. Instructions have been given for the cancellation of the arrangements entered into by the Health Department of New Zealand with the Master Bakers' Federation in 1924, which permitted of the short-weight sale of certain fancy loaves of bread, provided the same amount of dough as used for the making of the ordinary 21b loaf was employee!. In making the announcement to-day, the Minister of Internal Affairs says he found that the Department had acted in good faith, the decision being arrived at after exhaustive tests, whereby it had been found that a well-baked barracouta loaf would lose in baking approximately 2oz more moisture,! than certain other types and yet the iood value would remain the same. The arrangement, however, has been terminated, and the weight of all bread will be governed by the provisions of section 2t> of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act. 190 S. This, in brief, prohibits the sale of short-weight bread. The Minister's inquiry and action arose from the attention which was drawn to the matter in the House last session, when Mr. T. W. McDonald, member for Wairarapa. assailed the legality of the Department's action.