GRAIN WEIGHING.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 15, Issue 1181, 3 May 1892, Page 2

GRAIN WEIGHING.

TO THE BDITOB* SIR,-On reading you;* reiiOrt of the deputation which waitej on tb.e Minister for Lands re above subjucl, 1 observe Mr Milne aaj-s " that sometime ago a hitler sent 300 bags of grain to Buneaitt and 300 to the Bluff.—These bags aU of the same size, name ?^ D ' Bi i ma f'°P ' y p -« the Blnfi returns wei« lOlba a bag leB» ' t han the Dunedin returns." irf W returns just to hand for grain sold ap a delivered to two grain dealers in *„fjie, 1 find .that we do hot require to go so far as the Blufi or Dunedin to obtain a serious discrepancy in the weight of grain. There is only the thickne3S of a brick wall between the two places of bußines?, and. both managers will swear on the Blessed fJot-k that their weights aro correct, yet to me the result ia—bags all of the same size, same graiu, same crop, same thrashing—a difference of 71 bs per bag, There is something wrong somewhere in grain weighing even in Gore, and I ; think the Farmers' Uiub ought to see to it, and. bring Us weigbt to bear on the farmers in general, eo that a wide and influential Vigilance Committee be formed to expose and, at least, boycott UDJust dealers in grain. —Yours, e;c, ' ■ A Fabmbb. Gore, May 2,1892. •?