SHORT WEIGHT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 29 May 1922, Page 7

SHORT WEIGHT.

♦— A CHINAMAN FINED. | (BY TELEGRAPH—-PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WANGANUI, May 29. Sam Lee, a Chinese vendor of vegetables, was fined £5, with costs, by Mr Wilson, S.M., on a charge of having a, spring balance unregistered. Inspector Gohns stated that Lee hawked vegetables from house to house_ and had used scales registering half a pound short weight. The magistrate said he was pleased that a prosecutioh of this kind had been insfitiited. There was a necessity for increasing vigilance in respect to travelling .vendors' goods.1 It was a shame that poor working people suffered through the rascality of some of these people. The inspector intimated that a number of similar cases would follow.