COAL BY "THE BAG"
Many complaints were received during the year that dealers were in the habit of selling coal and coke by.tho big instead of by weight, states the annual report of the Department of Internal Affair*. Section 24 of the Weights and Measures Act, 1906, provides that charcoal, coke, and coal of any description shall be sold by weight and not by measure, but that nothing shall prevent its sale in any vessel that is not represented as containing any amount of standard weight or measure. This, while authorising the sale of a bucket, or basket, or truck of coal as such, but not as representing; a certain weight, does not authorise tho sale of coal by the bag, since a bag is not a "vessel" within the meaning of the Act. The attention of dealers in towns where sale by the bag has been the custom has been drawn to the requirements of the Art. Complaints have also been made of short-weight coal and food commodities. This matter is not one that oan bo dealt with under the present Weights and Measures Act. Tho need for power to regulate the sal© of coal is urgent. ,
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 138, 7 December 1918, Page 4
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198COAL BY "THE BAG" Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 138, 7 December 1918, Page 4
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