FALSE WEIGHTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 166, 5 February 1867, Page 2

FALSE WEIGHTS.

(To the -Editor of the Grey Riper ' Afifttg: > ' Sir -Is not the price of butcher's meat quite high" enough without the' buyer being cheated put,, a few pounds more or less by r false weights ? Having occasion to purchase- K a joint for my Sunday's dinner, I hied me to a certain butcher's shop for that purppse • a. joint was cut and weighed, 7Jlbs- (butcher'a " weight), but being suspioiouscqf ""tnp said^ weight, I hied me to another^(^& jjaiasfy" myself on the subject. Judgebf my astonish-: mont when the meat was placed upotfiEho scale to find it under 61bs; TMiiking the butcher had probably made; a>mistakey 'X returned to inform him of it;- -when judge of my greater astonishment, he told me i,e >venfc by his own scales and no one's else. Now,' sir, is this not a great public injustice ?— is not Is 6d per lb quite enbugh-withput (as I before remarked) the^bi>yer -being ;•; cheated* If there isiio inspector of weights and-mea-sureson tlie Grey dont you tliink it is high time there was ? Knowing your columns arp. ever open to. justice I thus presume Jib trespass on your valuable time and spaceP ■■'-: : '.r>: .:/■ , ■';■.'• -. I am, &c,, , ";. \ L : '■• .■/ ; . ; - W.,\ -.; -.' . - " A Victim. . Greymouth, 4th February, 1807; ' *.;. / • ■ [Asnm of money has been voted By thYProvineiaJ Council for paying an Inspector of " Weights and Measures. J — Ep. G;R:A\ ■ *■'/■■ '-/ ■