SHORT-WEIGHT COAL
CONVICTIONS IN CHBISTCHURCH. CHRISTCHXTRCH, This Day. Charges were laid in.the Magistrate's Court to-day .under the new regulations framed to protect. the public against short-weight deliveries of coal., J. J. Purdie pleaded guilty to selling coal other than by weight. The inspector said that he did not ask for a fine. The cases had been brought under the new regulations for the first time in Christchurch. The Magistrate said it was not generally known that wood, coal, and coke must be sold by weight and not by the sack. ■ The defendant was ordered to pay costs. A. Harding pleaded not guilty to charges of selling coal short of the quantity purported to be sold, and of conveying coal on a vehicle- with the weight of the coal wrongly stated. Counsel for the defendant said the weight of the sacks must be taken into account, and there was no evidence as to how much ■ they weighed. The coal was on the vehicle, but it was not in motion, so that it could not be said that the coal was being "conveyed." The defendant was convicted and ordered to pay costs.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 33, 8 August 1923, Page 6
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