SALE OF SOAP.
AMENDING REGULATIONS. WELLINGTON, July 26. Amending regulations dealing with the sale of soap were gazetted to-night. Under the provisions of the Weights and Measures Act, 1925, the following new regulation has been added:— 1. In this regulation “ tablet soap ” means soap in tablet form not exceeding eight inches in length stamped in a machine by means of moulds or dies. 2. No person shall sell by retail packages of soap other than (a) tablet soap, and (b) soap preparations (not being in the form of bar soap or soft soap) otherwise than of the net weights hereinafter in this regulation prescribed. 3. When bar soap is sold by retail in packages each package shall contain such net weight that 32, 40, 52, or 74 packages of equal weight shall constitute lewt net weight. 4. When soft soap is sold <by retail in packages each _ package shall contain one pound or an integral number of pounds net weight.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3881, 31 July 1928, Page 17
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160SALE OF SOAP. Otago Witness, Issue 3881, 31 July 1928, Page 17
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