THE METRIC SYSTEM
• TO THE KDITOR, Sir,—Would yon kindly (through thamedium of your 'paper) inform mo if tho metric system of weights and measures comesintoforcein New Zealand ? ThankiDg you for information,—l am, etc, Kilo. [tt will possibly come into force next year. Clphbb 25 of iho Weights and Measures Aot, passed in 1903. rends bb follows:—"It shall be lawful for the Governor at any time, by proclamation, to ki'ii'i'fi that from and aftnr a date mm.:'.! in the proclamation, being not sooner than the first day of January, 1906, tho metric system, na described in tho second schedule hereto, shall be tbo only syxtem of weights and measures. reoignißed for use in New Zealand, and thereafter it shall not be lawful to use any weights and measures other than those describe-} in the said second Bohedulu."—Ed. Tblkqihph.]
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1227, 19 January 1905, Page 3
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