The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1891. Adulteration Prevention

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 157, 30 June 1891, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1891. Adulteration Prevention

The following are the principal clauses in the Act to amend the lav relating to the sale of bread, introduced to the ,House hy the Hon. Mr Ward. (I.) "All bread made for sale, except as hereinafter excepted, shall he made into loaves weighing not less than one pound, two pounds,--four pounds, six pounds, and" eight pounds- respectively, and which loaves shall be culled and understood to be the one- pound loaf, two-pounds loaf, four- pounds loaf, six-pounds loaf, and eight-pounds loaf. (2.) Every person who makes for sale, or sells or offers for eale, bread of any other denomination or size, or sells or offers for sale any loaf which shall be found deficient of its due weight when weighed in the shop, house, or premises, at the time it is sold or offered for sale, and which has been baked within twenty-four hours next preceding the time of its being , so sold or offered for sale, the proof of which, shall be on the baker or seller thereof, shall be liable for every such offence; to a penalty not exceeding five pounds and not less than forty shillings. (3,) Any person who may purchase any such loaf or bread from any such baker or seller of bread may, if he or she shall think proper, require the same to be immediately weighed in his or her presence. (4.) Nothing herein contained . shall extend or be construed to extend to prevent any baker or seller of bread from making or selling: bread usually sold under ' the denomination of French or fancy rolls or twists of such weight or size as he shall think fit, and without previously weighing the" same. 4. Every baker or seller of bread, and every journeyman servant or other person employed by such baker or seller of bread, who shall convey and carry out bread for sale in any cart, or other carriage drawn by a horse or other animal, shall be provided with and constantly carry in such cart or other carriage a correct beam and scales with proper weights or other sufficient balance for weighing loaves of bread ■ of the regulated weights of one pound, two pounds, four pounds, six .pounds, and eight pounds respectively. . And any person who may purchase any such loaf of bread may, if he or she shall think proper, require the same to be weighed in- his or her presence. In case any such baker or seller of bread, or his servant or other person, shall at any time carry out or , deliver any' bread in any. such cart or other carriage as aforesaid without being provided with proper weights or other sufficient balance, or shall at any time refuse to weigh any bread purchased of him, or delivered by his journeyman servant or other person in the presence of the person or per sons purchasing or receiving the same, then aud in every 1 such case every such baker or seller of bread shall be liable, for every such offence, to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and not less than twenty shillings."

The following are the traffic returns for the Napier-Taranaki section for the four weeks ending 23rd May, 1891, and for the corresponding four weeks, 1890 : —

£12,149 0 9 £11,746 14 11 The gross cost of the opened and unopened lines amounts to £15.344,223.

"1891 1890 Passengerß... 5062 0 8 - 4797 2 2 Parcels ... 587 5 1 603 0 7 Goods ... 6159 510 5987' 13 '9 Mis'laneous 340 9 2 '358 18 5