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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 975, 5 September 1868, Page 4

Bakees and Millebs Bill. — This bill contains twenty-two clauses, and provides that all bread shall be made of " pure and sound " meal of " wheat, barley, rye, oats, buckwheat, Indian corn, peas, beans, rice, or potatoes, or any of them, and with any common salt, pure water, eggs, milk, barm, leaven, potato or other yeast, and mixed in such proportions as may be thought fit, and with, no other ingredient or matter whatsoever." Household wheaten bread is to be marked with a Roman H ; mixed bread is to be marked M ; penalty for not marking, 10s. Bread is to be sold by weight, otherwise subject the baker to a penalty of 40s. French rolls and fancy bread are exempt. Usingany other weights than avoirdupois will subject the baker to a penalty not exceeding £5, nor less than ss. Also, bakers are to provide their shops with weights and scales. False weights subject the baker to a penalty of £5.— Independent.