TINDER-WEIGHT BREAD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17483, 29 May 1920, Page 7

TINDER-WEIGHT BREAD.

SEVERAL FINES IMPOSED.

MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES.

The sale of underweight bread resulted in the appearance of several shopkeepers before Mr. J. E. Wilson. S.M., in the Police Court yesterday.

James fJhoebridge, New North Rood (Mr. A. ilj Mowlem), admitted the Bale of a loaf which proved to be on© ounce underweight. In defence -he explained that the sale occurred . the day before Good Friday, when he was very busy. He usually weighed a loaf from ea batch, but on this occasion. left it to his staff. Before leaving on the bread-round he ordered his baker to withdraw tho loaves at a certain time, but the man left them in the oven for 25 minutes longer, thus overtaking them. The inspector, Mr. H. Furness, gave evidence that 11 loaves, in the batch were underweight, and although they were not burned they were h&d baked. The magistrate remarked that under the circumstances fit penalty would be light. Defendant would be convicted and fined £2 and 9s costs. William Collins, College Hill, who abo admitted having sold a loaf which wis two ounces one dram underweight, said that a great deal of his bread was overweight. The magistrate convicted and fined him £3 and 9s costs. Two shopkeepers, George Thomas Rumble, of Great North Road, and Stella T. Riggs, of Karangahape Road, who obtained their bread from another firm, also admitted the sale of under-weight loaves. The former said he- sold the bread without weighing it, and the latter said that loaves from the firm in question had been weighed for two years and ten months, and had never been underweight. Tho magistrate remarked that the only safeguard was to weigh each loaf. Defendants | were each convicted and ordered to pay : 9s costs.