Short-weight Bread.
The London County Council has had a report prepared on the frauds practised in London on bread consumers. It i' stated that the consumers of bread lose between £400,000 and £500,000 a year in respect of deficient weight. This startling statement appears in the report of the public control committee of tha London County Council. The committee in recommending that the Board o£ Trade should be urged to introduce legislation for the amendment of the law on the subject, gives details of systematic purchases made by the council’s inspectors, extending over a year, and the bread was bought at shops, from carts and barrows, at private houses, twopenny loaves at shops.-and “standard” bread.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2, 10 July 1912, Page 59
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115Short-weight Bread. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2, 10 July 1912, Page 59
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