SACKS OF COAL.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l should be glad if any of your readers would enlighten me as to what constitutes a bag of coal, the size of the sack and the quantity it should legally contain ? Until I came toTe Kuiti I always understood that a sack of coal should contain about lH cwt. but judging from my experience here I am very murh astray. The baker is prosecuted if he sells bread an ounce underweight: the milkman if bis milk is not up to a certain standard; and yet a sack of coat may be anything, and apparently we have no redress. Some time ago one of our late councillors very sensibly advocated a public weighbridge, but evidently the suggestion was not supported. In these days, when the cost of living is rising so quickly, one has a. right to ask tbat means should be available of determining what we get. the correct weight not only of coal but of everything else.— Yours, etc., WORKER.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 1223, 12 June 1919, Page 5
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