DRASTIC PUNISHMENT.
We hear a great deal nowadays ahout - pure bread, but we seem to be more tolerant of adulteration than was the custom in the old days (says the "Westminster Gazetto"). Mr Walter W. Skeat, in a little hook, "The Past at Our Doors," just issued by Messrs Macmillan, says that adulteration used to be punished with extreme severity. £i The fraudulent baker, if net stripped and whipped at tho cross-roads, was drawn on a hurdle with the offending loaf round his neck, and pilloried, or else, for repeating the offence a third time, had his oven destroyed, and was himself forced to forswear the trade for ever." Sometimes bakers were in the habit of putting iron in a loaf to make it heavier, and this was treated as n special offence and punished accordinclv.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19110428.2.30
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14029, 28 April 1911, Page 6
Word Count
136DRASTIC PUNISHMENT. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14029, 28 April 1911, Page 6
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.