TROY WEIGHT.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15874, 13 April 1917, Page 2

TROY WEIGHT.

TO TTTI2 EDITOR 01'' "THK FKESS." Sir, —In a sub-leader of April 10th, you say that the trov pound has disappeared as a legal -weight, although the troy ounce of ,480 grains is retained. But, according to - the Mint regulations, 20 pounds troy of standard gold is coined with 934 sovereigns and a halfsovereign. . y - ■ And Pears' Cyclopaedia gives a troy weight table, and says that the precious metals are weighed by • this scale. Twelve troy ounces one pound, one hundred pounds one hundredweight, twenty hundredweight one tort troy. — Yours, etc.. J. MILES VERB-ALL. Swannanoa, April 11th, 1917. I\S. —That we have not got a decimal coinage and a metric system of and measures long ago, is a proof of the apathy and inertia of the people, and the stupidity of our legislators. — J.M.V. ["Our authority is the Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 28 ; page 480, which states: —"Troy weight was abolished from the first of January, 1879, by tho Weights and Measures Act, 1878, with the exception only of tho troy ounce, its_ decimal parts, and multiples, legalised in 1553, 16 Vict. c. 29, to be used for the sale of gold »nd silver articles, platinum and precious stones." —Ed. "The Press."]