SHORT-WEIGHT BREAD
♦ MAGISTRATE’S COMMENT (P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 6. ‘There is no room in our system of Government for a ‘gentleman’s agreement’ between a department of State and a section of the community whereby that section becomes entitled to commit a breach of the penal law and be immune from prosecution,” said Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, in a reserved judgment in a case where a number of bakers were charged with selling short-weight bread. In evidence, witnesses for the prosecution stated that a “gentleman’s agreement" existed between the department and the bakers that no prosecution would be brought unless the deficiency in the'-barracouta loaf exceeded two ounces. Fines ranging from £1: to £3 were imposed on each of the five defendant bakers,.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23349, 7 June 1941, Page 5
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