A STANDARD JAM JAR
British grocers.would like the Board of Trade to prescribe a standard size of jam jar and to put an end to the misleading type of price ticket, according to Mr. W. Herman Kent, national secretary of the National Federation of Grocers' and Provision Dealers' Associations. Speaking at the annual conference of the Incorporated Society of Inspectors of Weights and Measures at County Hall, London, he said that his federation was prepared to support a proposal for bringing jam, marmalade, and jelly preserve within the net weight requirement. They were greatly pertux'bed by the odd-weight packs of jam which had made their appearance in recent year?,, and condemned them as deceptive and unfair trading. The federation had sternly set its face against price tickets," so familiar on hawkers' barrows, showing a price in big type and the words "half pound" in extremely small type. It would welcome a regulation providing that the weight should be stated in a conspicuous manner on • the price ticket. Mr. Kent added that he thought inspectors generally had too many duties thrust on them. "Inspectors of weights and measures should not be turned into official poohbahs, but should be relieved of extraneous duties to pay whole-time attention to their matojob," he said. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 12, 14 July 1938, Page 12
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210A STANDARD JAM JAR Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 12, 14 July 1938, Page 12
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