EPSOM AND AMALGAMATION. SHORT-WEIGHT, BUTTER.
COMPLAINTS IN ■ WELLINGTON...:' • - [BT TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ; ASSOCIATION'-] • : Wellington, Tuesday. ■*$£% At intervals citizens have complained that .: ,they have paid at the rate of Is ; 7d. a . pound for, short-weight butter. The J Health' Department has been alert for the- '■-' detection of such. practices, arid i the";/.{ result t■ of the k -Vigilance 9 :* 'is ''•' that ': r f> certain .. prosecutions may .. .follow. . The Department has met with a difficulty. \ The law provides for action if the quantity sold is below, the weight specified on"<>J: the wrapper, hut if no weight ' is indi-'?;'': cated, the Department is apparently put" out of court. Certain packers ■; of * butter \\-.'\- quickly .-. saw ' the advantage.of omittinj,> the weight on, the wrapper of; what were sold as pound pats of butter. ";' Experience '■ has .proved that the law.; will ;;.require ~ amendment.'. A single clause will be suf < ficient. Protest' are also being made-ti'. against " light weight" .in ycoihmodities '■',? "■ outside the , Health Department's scope. ! A suburban resident states, that alleged . i hundredweights are sometimes 101b or 121b ;-i (short. •' ■' ; ; /'''W : y.';;:; "MM-,.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15951, 23 June 1915, Page 5
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