The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. SATRUDAY, JUNE 29, 1895. CORONERS' INQUESTS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 305, 29 June 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. SATRUDAY, JUNE 29, 1895. CORONERS' INQUESTS.

From time to time complaints have been made by the proprietors of licensed bouses of the hardship inflicted on them by bfing compelled to allow coroners .inquests to be held on their Ipiemises. Mayor Steward has introduced a measure which, if accepted by Parliament, will do away with that cause o\ complaint to a greiit extent. It is provided that in exceptional cases every licensed publican shall supply convenient accommoda tion on his premises for holding an inquest or inquiry under ll The Coroners Act, 18G7 " ; but no such inquest or inquiry shall be held upon the premises of any licensed publican if there shall be a courthouse or polico station situate within a distance of one mile from such licensed premises, whereat such inquest or inquiry can be conveniently held. Section four of The Coroners Act Amendment Act 1888 will be repealed and in lieu thereof the following will be substituted :— No holder of a publican's license shall be required to receive any dead body for the purpose of an inquest being held thereon if there shall be a public morgue situated within two miles of his licensed premises. Jurors are to bo paid, according to the distance they may have to travel and the hours of attendance, from 3s Gd to Gs per diem. THE BREAD DILL. o — Tins measure comes under the heading of " The Adulteration Acts " and has passed its secoud reading in the House of Representatives. Its provisions are not very important but they arc likely to prove irritating to country bakers. All bread made for sale shall bo made in loaves weighing not less than one pound, two pounds and four pounds respectively at the time of sale. Each loaf shall, at the time of baking, be legibly stamped with figures indicating the weight. Purchasers are to have full weight, and may demand to have the bread weighed when making the purchase. Any person failing to comply with the Act may be fined not less than twenty shillings nor more than five pounds ; but it shall be a sufficient defence if the defendant proves to the satisfaction of the Court that in making the loaf he allowed the usual and proper margin to cover loss of weight by evaporation in baking. Clause 8 of the Act provides certain sefeguardsfor defendants, while Clause 9 provides a penalty for persons who wilfully supply a false warranty to any article of food or drug.