LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXV, Issue 8901, 7 April 1936, Page 2

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

QUALITY AND SIZE OF WAIHI EGGE

Sir, —I must say that I was exceedingly pleased at "Square Deal's" letter in Saturday's paper protesting against the minuteness of tho "cackleberries" that are supplied to us from a number of dealers in Waihi. To ask us to pay from 2s 3d to 2s 5d per dozen for what I class as third-grade eggs is preposterous. Should a baker offer for sale a loaf of bread an ounce or two short in weight an inspector of weights and measures would fall on him like a ton of bricks; likewise the coaldealer who palms off a lightweight bag on a customer. Mow il is I hen that a dealer in eggs is allowed to tuck away in n corner of a small paper hag a dozen of teeny-weeny bantam-sized esgs. and then have the audacity to charge the same price as householders in Auckland pay for the first-grade article, I am at a loss to understand. At breakfast on Sunday morning if I didn't have the forethought to poke a bit of paper into my egg-cup I would have lost sight of my precious wee egg altoge-1 ther. —I am, etc., GIVE US FULL WEIGHT.