PROPOSED ADULTERATION PREVENTION BILL.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1057, 2 June 1892, Page 29

PROPOSED ADULTERATION PREVENTION BILL.

IMPORTANT TO BAKERS. One of the measures prepared by Ministers for submission to Parliament next session ia intituled ‘An Act to Amend the Law Relating to the sale of Bread. Among other things it proposes to relax the stringency of the law with respect to the sale of fancy bread. The Bill .has been drafted on the lines of recent legislation m the Old Country, and while thoroughly protecting the public from fraud, it will not fall with unreasoning severity upon the purveyors of the staff of life. In order that those whom it immediately concerns may have the opportunity of making themselves acquainted with the proposed legislation, and may be enabled to suggest in good time whatever amendments may seem to them expedient, we append the leading provisions. Sub-sections 1,2 and 3of Clause 3 are as follow : (1.) All bread generally known as household’ or ‘ batch’ bread made for sale shall be made into loaves weighing not less than two pounds and four pounds respectively, and such loaves shall be called and understood to be the two pounds loaf and the four pounds loaf. (2 ) Every person who makes for sale, or sells or offers for sale, any loaf of household or batch bread which shall be found deficient ot its due weight when weighed in the shop, house, or premises, at the time it is sold or offered for sale, shall be required to make good any such deficiency at the time of sale anct any such person who shall sell or cause to be sold any such loaf of bread wmch shall be deficient of its proper weight, and which deficiency has not been made good at the time ot its being so sold or offered for sale, the prooE of which shall be on the baker or seller thereof, shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding forty'shillings. (3 ) Any person who may purchase any such loaf of bread from any such b » k A r . seller of bread may, if he or she shall think proper, require the same to be immediately weighed in hiß or her presence, i Clause 4 enacts that all bread other than household or batch bread shall be sold under the denomination of French or fancy bread ; and nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to prevent any baker or seller of bread from making or selling such French or fancy bread of such weight or size as he shall think fit, and without previously weighing the same. . . lL The sth and last clause repeals the Adulteration Prevention Acts Amendmont Act of la3t year.