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SHORT WEIGHT FOODSTUFFS. SHOULD BE PENAL OFFENCE. LONDON, Jan. L—Th* Food Council has issued a White Paper revealing the extent of the practice of giv ing short weight in foodstuffs. Mr Cole, inspector of weights and measures at Manchester, declares that 90 per cent, of the principal foods, including niadc-up packag and bag*, are generally short weight. Peas originally packed in pound . k<‘ts later dropped to ton ounces without intimation to the public, the park< t remaining the same size. Wh, u retailers were accused if giving hort weight, they retorted by selling ’r package, not weight. The inspector urges t’ 'he giving of short weight should lie made a penal offence. The w* jght should ap pear on the package.—(“S'an.”)
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Wairarapa Age, 4 January 1926, Page 5
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