Weighed in the Balance.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 492, 29 June 1932, Page 6

Weighed in the Balance.

To the Editor. Dear Sir,—l beg to call to your readers* attention the way I was robbed to-dUy in one of our city retail fish shops. Reading an advertisement that the price of ling was threepence a pound, I thought, being reasonable, it would be nice to get some cheap fish these hard times, so went along to the shop and asked for two pounds. I was served and taken down by a youth. But he w’as not clever enough manipulating the spring computing scales to hide his deception, as I detected him drop the fish on very heavily, and instead of allowing the scale to come to rest, he grabbed the fish and said “ Eightpence please.” To prove my suspicion, when I arrived home I weighed the fish on a similar tested set of scales and found, to my annoyance and pocket that paper and all weighed only two pounds half once. Meaning that instead of paying threepence as advertised and ticketed, I actually paid fourpence a pound, which works out at threepence on the shilling overcharge, or 25 per cent. My only reason for writing is to warn others of this shady class of business and in future to watch. —I am, etc., SCALES.