BAKERS AND MILLERS' ACT, 1871.

Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 403, 31 January 1872, Page 3

BAKERS AND MILLERS' ACT, 1871.

The following Act came into operation on the 31st Decem ber, 1871 . — The principal clauses are— 4. All bread made for sale, or sold, or exposed for sale within any part of New Zealand, shall be. made of pure and sound flour or meal of wheat, barley, rye. oats, buckwheat, indian corn, peas, beans,, rice, or potatoes, or any of them, and. with any common salt, pure water, eggs, milk, barm, leaven, potato, or other yeast, and mixed in such proportions as may be thought fit and with no other ingredient or matter whatsoever.

5. The introduction of any ingredients under whatever pretence beyond those specified subject offender to a fine not exceeding LI 0 nor less than forty shillings for every offence.

6. All bread made of the flour of wheat, which flour, without any mixture or division shall be the whole produce of the grain, the bran or hull thereof only excepted, shall be called and understood to be standard wheaten bread.

7. All wheaten bread made for sale of any meal, in which a portion of the bran or hull thereof shall hav.e been retained, shall be called and understood to be household wheaten bread, and every loaf of such bread shall be marked with a large Roman H. 1. All bread made for sale wholly or partially of the meal or flour of any other sort of corn or grain than wheat, or of the meal or flour of any peas, beans, or potatoes, shall be called and understood to be mixed bread, and every loaf of such bread shall be marked, with a large Roman M.

9. Any person selling bread without being maiked as dh-ected in two preceding clauses to be fined ten shillings for every pound of bread so sold or exposed for sale. 10. Bread to be sold by weight, and if otherwise, seller to forfeit fifty shillings for every offence. This provision not to extend to French rolls or fancy bread-

11. Avoirdupois weight of sixteen ounces to be used, otherwise subject to a fine not exceeding L 5 nor less than ss.

12. Bread sold without being previously weighed, subjects offender to penalty not exceeding L 5 for every offence.

13. Every baker or seller of bread to be provided with proper scales for weighing bread, and should he neglect this, or use false weights or scales, to be subject for every offence to a fine not exceeding L 5. 14. Any baker or confectioner having upon his premises impure, unsound, or unwholesome flour, shall, on conviction before two justices pay any sum not exceeding L2O, and forfeit his stock of such flour, or bread made from it.

15. Penalty not exceeding L2O nor less than Lss, for any person adulterating flour, or selling flour of one sort of corn as the flour of another.

10. Constables, authorised by warrant of justice, may search and examine mills, bakehouses, and stores for mixed or impure flour.

17. Any miller, mealman, or baker, on whopn premises any ingredient or mixture shall be found, adjudged to have been deposited there for the purpose of adulterating flour or bread, to pay on first conviction, any sum not exceeding L 5 ; for the second offence, not exceeding LlO ; and subsequent offences not exceeding Lls. IS. Persons obstructing search to forfeit for every offence any sum not exceeding LlO.

19.' Fines to be recovered in a summary way, and one-half of the penalty awarded to go to the informer or party prosecuting.

20. On second conviction, the offend 3r's name and place of abode, and offence, to be advertised.

21. Convictions cannot be made unless information laid within seventy-two hours of eommita! of oflence

22. Provides for protection of officers who have acted in pursuance of Act.