PRICE OF EGGS.
TO THE EDITOR.
Sir, —ft is bad enough in this country to have to pay hall a crown for a dozen eggs, ana when in this dozen you have served to you eggs that can only be considered as bantams, -weighing a bare ounce and a-half, it is time to complain. If a baker sells shortweight bread he can be prosecuted and heavily fined for defrauding the consumer. Why is it that the farmer can with impunity sell short-weight eggs? i understand that eggs must ho not less than two ounces. J have just weighed six eggs. Three failed to turn the scale at one and a-half ounces, while the other three were just slightly over. One hesitates to offer such apologies tor an egg. Such small eggs should be classed by themselves and sold at a lesser rate. The consumer would then know what he was buying. Surely something ought to be done to safeguard the public, so buying eggs householders may feel that they are getting fair value. I would suggest that someone whose business it is should go round some of the shops and see for himself.—l am, etc., If air yALUE. April 16,
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Evening Star, Issue 19842, 16 April 1928, Page 5
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200PRICE OF EGGS. Evening Star, Issue 19842, 16 April 1928, Page 5
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