Caution to Bakers.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 104, 30 May 1885, Page 6

Caution to Bakers.

A decision which was come to last week by the Full Court at Sydney is of great interest to the makers and consumers of "the staff of life." The occasion was an application for a new trial by the defendant in an action Evans v. Warren, in which the police ■magistrate had held that " tin loaves " did not come under the definition of fancy bread, and had fined the defendant for selling these of light weight. The Full Court refused a new trial, and sustained the opinion of the magistrate that the loaves in question were not exempted by the Act from the regulation as to weight. loaves baked in tins are as much liked by the Auckland as they appear to be by the Sydney public ; and it ia just possible that some of our bakers may fall into the mistake made by their brothers over the water, and put these out of light weight, under the impression that the proviso as to " French or fancy bread " protects them. The cost is undoubtedly greater to the baker, owing to the evaporation of moisture. The Sydney Bench suggested that the baker might get over the difficulty by charging a higher price for the •• tin loaf," and no doubt this is the proper course to be adopted. The New Zealand Act, which eeems to be substantially the same as that in force in New South Wales, is devised in the public interest, its object being to secure a standard weight for the ordinary loaf of bread ; but bakers are left free to make fancy bread ol any weight they choose. Tinned loaves are consumed in such quantities and are so compounded, that they cannot in any sense be classed as "fancy bread j" and this opinion being backed by high legal authority, bakers should be careful in their own interest, 6s well as that of the public, to see that they are made of full weight,