SHORT-WEIGHT FOODS
PRACTICE REACHES ALARMING EVTENT.
90 PER CENT. SAID TO BE INCORRECT.
LONDON, Jan. 1. The Food Council has issued a White Paper revealing the extent 9! the practice of giving short weight in foodstuffs. „ . , , Mr. Cole, inspector of weights and measures at Manchester, declares that 90 per cent, of the principal foods, including made packages and bags, which are generally shortweight, show that peas, orginally paclced in pound packages later dropped to ten ounces without intimation to the public, the packet remaining the same size. When retaders w accused of short-weight they retorted they were selling by the package, n Council urged that the giving of short-weight should be a penal -offence and that the weight should appear on the package.— pun.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10193, 4 January 1926, Page 5
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