WHAT IS A SACK OF WOOD?

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 38, 13 August 1920, Page 7

WHAT IS A SACK OF WOOD?

A correspondent wishes to know what constitutes "a sack of wood" as it .leaves the State Firewood Depot',.- The 'writer points out that "the transaction of ordering wood is cash down, and it is sold by the sack; but (there if no guarantee given-that the sack must be delivered to the purchaser full; even so, it may be so artistically packed that it may appear full or partly so. Coal vans in London always, and by law, carry with them weights and scales, and the buyer can, and often does, insist upon" each sack being weighed in his presence, no matter what the quantity, one cwt or one ton. Furthermore, lynx-eyed County Council inspectors are 'liable to appear at any moment driving round with standard weights and scales to test those carried by the coal van. Tin's is - done on the spot. What guarantee does the retail purchaser of coal or wood ia Wellington recede-as to^fts^frecf"' .TC<ygttk-6i;fef OTic and/the just quantity of the other? "Sack" is too indefinite a term to use, any\vay. The capacity of the sack to contain firewood sold by the Sta€e should be definitely defined and declared, and that capacity should be filled by as much wood as it is possible to get into the sack. In that condition the sack should be delivered to the purchaser. The wood is dear enough, and full weight or measurement should ba obtainable. "Is the sale of State firewood exempt from the provisions of the Weights and Measures Act, 1908? If 30 then the Department'can legally send out. say three billets to a sack, if it likes: biit only so long as a sack is construed to be a vessel that is not represented as containing any. amount of standard weight or measure. What is ths lecrat definition of a sack as applied to. firewood? Ascertain that, and then the Department must deliver'its sa«ks: fui! and the purchaser should, refuse to accept de ivervof them if they are not full and well Bhaken down.'* •