SHORT-WEIGHT COAL BAGS.
TO THE EDITOR OS THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Sib,—l recently ordered five bags of coal, expecting to got the usual fire hundredweight. Thinking .the quantity looked small, I put the coal in some corn sacks and had the whole re-weighed, when it was found to bo seventy-five pounds short in the quarter cf a ton. Will our candidates for Parliamentary honours say if they will endeavour to legislate that a bag of coal shall weigh one hundredweight. It ia the poorer class who feel the los3 most.—l am, &c, Cabbon.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 9138, 8 November 1890, Page 3
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