HARBOUR BOARD WEIGHTS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9670, 8 March 1897, Page 3

HARBOUR BOARD WEIGHTS.

TO THE EDITOR 07 THE PBBSS.

Sib,—•Referring to the letters that have been passing between Mr J. T. Wright and the Lytteltoa Harbour Board, we wish to explain, for the benefit of your readers, that we never received a weight note certificate from the Harbour Board, but were furnished with particulars by Messrs G. R. Joea and Ck>., who sampled the wheat into store and who, it now appears, made a mistake of oowt in one truck when taking down the weights from the Harbour Board warehouse* man. This fact we were not aware of until pointed out to tit tg Mi Moltt*fxt an

last Friday afternoon. We handed Joss and Co.'s certificate of weights to the Farmers' Co-op. (Mr Wright's agents) to make up their accounts from, and remarked at the time that one truck was a good deal lighter than the others. Mr Wright was nofc satisfied with these weights, and went to Lyttelton to see into the matter. He had twenty sacks weighed, and we agreed to ?ay on the average weight of these sacks. Pc now find that, according to the Harbour Board's correct weight, and the average taken of the twenty Backs, that we havo overpaid Mr Wright's agents for a few bushels, whioh we shall of course claim to have refunded. It is only fair to mention that we have always found Harbour Board weights quite as correct as other warehouse weights, and more to be relied on than railway weights. Had Mr Wright properly checked the weights when he was in Lyttelton he would have discovered Joss and Co.'s clerical error, and so saved himself and others a lot of useless correspondence.—Yours, &c, Sawtbll and Wachsmann. Christchurch, 6th March, 1897.