SHORT-WEIGHT BUTTER
AN APPEAL LODGED. Yesterday afternoon Mr. M. Myers, (11 behalf of Messrs. Joseph Nathan <ind Co., lodged an appeal against the decision of Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., in fining tho firm JEIO on a churgo of soling shortweight butter. The grounds of tho appeal are that it was not proved that Iho butter was under weight when sold by defendants; that it was not proved that there was not a loss duo to evaporation after the butter vas sold by tho defendants; that the evidence showed that tho loss was, or might havo been, due to evaporation; that Iho defendants did not act wilfully, but took all reasonable steps to ascertain that the. sale of the butter would ar,t constitute an offence.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3152, 2 August 1917, Page 8
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125SHORT-WEIGHT BUTTER Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3152, 2 August 1917, Page 8
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