THE STAFF OF LIFE.

Bay of Plenty Times, Issue XX, 15 June 1892, Page 2

THE STAFF OF LIFE.

PROPOSED NEW LEGISLATION

One of the measures prepared by Ministers for submission to Parliament next sessiou id intituled • An Act to Amend the Law Relating to the sak of Bread . ' Among other things it proposes to* relax the stringency of the law with respect to the sale of fancy bread-. The Bill Ims been drafted on the lines of recent legislation in the Old Country, aud while throughly protecting the public from fraud, it will not fall with unreasoning severity upon the purveyors of the staff of life. In order that, those whom ie immediately concerns may have the opportunity of making themselves acquainted with the proposed legislation, and may be enabled to suggest in good time whatever amendments may seem to them expedient, we append the leading provisions, Sub-ssetious 1, 2 and 3 of Clause 3 are as follow : —

(I.) All bread generally known as ' household 'or ' batch ' bread made for gale shall be made into loaves weighing not le w than two pounds and four pounds respectively, and such loaves will be called and understood

to be tha two pounds loaf and the four pouudsloaf, .

( 2. ) Every person who makes for sale, or sells or offers for sale, any loaf of household or batch bread which shall be found deficient of its due weight when weighed iv the shop, house, or premises, at the time it is sold or offer* d for s»le, shall be required to make good any such deficiency at the time of sile and any su.-L. pjrsou who shall sell or cause to be sold any such loaf of bread which shall be deficient of its proper weight, and which ficiency has not beeu made good at the time of its being so sold or offered for sale, the proof which shall be on the baker or seller thereof, shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding fcrty shillings. (3.) Any person who m.y purchase any such loaf of bread from any t>unh baker or seller of bread may, if he or she will think proper, require the same to be immediately weighed in his or her presence. Clause 4 enacts that all bread other than hoBsehol! or bitch bread shall be sold under the denomination of French or fancy bread ; and nothing herein contained shall extend orbe construed to extend to prevent any biker or seLer of bread from making or Hellino* such French or fancy bread of such weight o^sjzj as he shall think fi>, and without previously weighing the same. The sth and last clause repeals the Adulteration Prevention Aots A'lendnjmt Ast of last year.