LIGHT WEIGHT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3803, 22 September 1883, Page 3

LIGHT WEIGHT.

[To lira Enrror. of the Daily Telegraph.] Sir,—Mr l< , . J. TilWs latter, in last night's paper discloses the fact that that gentleman is very much to bo pitied. He appears to have been not only'diddled out of 15 ounces of meat, value ■I^d, but ho had to carry his joint to a neighboring shop to ascertain the amount of his loss. He seems to have had his suspicions for some time previously aroused to the thought that lie had been had in his dealings with promiscuous hawkers, but, probably, he did not mind a few small peccadilloes, as a saving, perhaps, is effected by refraining from purchasing from the legitimate shop. But to those who believe in saving a penny here and a halfpenny there Mr Titt'cn's case must appear peculiarly hard. The knowledge that you have been done out of something less than sixpence in the desire to save ;t penny comes as a cruel blow, and naturally evokes an application through tho Press to tho Inspector of Weights and Measures. But, Sir, is it not possible) that the hawkers scales wore true, and that; tho shopkeeper's in which the meat was afterwards weighed I gave a trifle in favor of tho buyer ? Shop-

keepers in Napier, to my own knowledge, are extremely liberal in both measuring and weighing goods, and the apparent difference between the hawker's scales and those of the shopkeeper may only have been due to tho different stylo" in weighing. It is a horrible reflection, but it, may be true, that Mr Tiffen, by having bought of hawkers instead of from established butchers, has lost twice as much as he lias saved. I have bouirht from hawkers and have never been cheated ; I have got my fair weight. The butcher, as a rule, gives his customer more than the weight charged for.—l am, <fee., Not to be Doxe. September 22, ISS3.