FRUIT HAWKING.

Evening Star, Issue 21138, 25 June 1932, Page 17

FRUIT HAWKING.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Among the many hawkers who call at the door are the fruit hawkers, who display in buckets apples at 2s a bucket. On asking the weight they contain I was assured that they contained 101 bof first-grade fruit. I purchased a bucket, and on weighing them I found there was .barely 71b in it, and they were mixed varieties. I notice from time to time that the coal merchant is called upon by the inspector of weights and measures to account for the weight of coal in the sacks he delivers to his customers. When I think of the way I was deceived, I wonder where the inspectors are who allow this unfair method of trading to be carried on. Bushel cases of apples contain 401 b, and when I look up the market report I find bushel cases selling on the market from 3s 6d to 5s a case. This gives the fruit hawker 11s 6d a case for fruit which cost him 5s or less a case.— l am, etc., Stung. June 23.