Correspondence

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 48, 20 October 1891, Page 2

Correspondence

- SHORT WEIGHT IN BREAD. - . TO THE EDITOR OF- THE STAB. Sir, — Tour correspondent " Paterfa- l milias," like a retreating foe when dis- ' lodged from ono position, seeks to take up--another, but he is as unfortunate in the second attempt as in the first. In his first letter he sought to make the baker responsible for the weight of his bread. after it had left his possession; now he "*"-. wants to make him responsible for an. indefinite period, and to back up his argument, he quotes an Act passed^in New South "Wales dealing with 'thig^snbject, and also an Act passed last session in New ~ j ' Zealand. Now, sir, " Paterfamilias " would have displayed far more" wisdom:;*- ° had he studied his subject a little more " > before rushing into print. I have seen"""" the Act recently passed in New Zealand,' * 1 and there it provides that a loaf shall bo 3-^ of a specified weight for 24 hours after it » has left the oven, and that scales be pra-^,f/^ vided by the baker "to weigJ^msT <&3 bread if the customer desires it. Af-"*^ saming, of course, that no rone 3* would care* to purchase"" bread older -^' than that. If our law-makers had known _P that " Paterfamilias" required bread three ~ >S or four days old, on account of indigestion, T~ they might have put in a clause foe hisspecial benefit, but omitting this, the^only T -, course open to himi is to take his bread t-?i' and keep it himself until it suits him to .^ eat it (only in that casß he would lose two or three ounces r 6f bread), or I would sug- N r gest to him that as the bread is composed ' " of three ingredients, namely, flour, salt, and liquid, and qs ie lVoniy. deficient in ' - the last of these, through evaporation; r "\ " Paterfamilias" might easily make up L the weigtit himself if he thought fit.— l ■£ am, &c., - > - * " J. GOTJED. ±\ '