SHORT WEIGHTS.
To the Editor of the Olooe. Slß,—Those shopkeepers who were fined yesterday for being found with weights under the standard in their possession have a grievance, and no wonder. The majority of them are butchers, and, be it said to their oredit, they are very cleanly fellows in the management of their businesses generally, and not leastwise in the purifying process through which they religiously put the weights and scales used in their respective places of business. Not muoh wonder they feel injured at. having to part 20s for each and every weight that chanced to be a few drachms short when they felt themselves to he innocent of any felonious intent—a position, by the way, in the assumption of which they appear to have been sustained by the Bench in every respect, instead of treating them as defrauders by imposing a flue and forfeiting their property. It behoves the tradespeople down here to look sharper after " the man with the standards," and if possible see to it, that they requisition him to port onoe every three months at least. JTJSTITIA. Lyttelton, February 10th.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2172, 10 February 1881, Page 3
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