MANY MEASURES
AVHO WILL RUT THEM STRAIGHT?
The English Society of Inspectors of Weights and Measures is discontented with the curious weights and measures applied to all sorts and conditions of produce. Little wonder, when a hundredweight is not that at nil but a hundred-and-twclve weight. The society has passed a resolution begging for a revision of measurements. A stone may be so many different tilings. It is Ulbs.when we weigh a man, 8 when wc weigh beef. It is 16 lb. in the cheese trade while in hemp it is 32.
Then there is that elusive thing the barrel. A barrel of butter is 224 lbs; of beef 200; of soap 256; of beer 36 gallons.
Then there are quarters of wheat and quarter avoirdupois ounces avoirdupois and ounces troy, long tons and short tons and metric tons, and a host of other diversions. Can it be that the hardihood of our race has been partly induced by wrestling with these little difficulties?
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11931, 24 January 1936, Page 4
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