Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1226, 19 January 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1872.

We think it is not generally known that a very stringent Act relating to bakers and millers is now in force in this Colony. The Act is based upon a similar one passed some years ago by the Imperial Parliament, and during the last session of the New Zealand legislature it was adapted to this Colony under the title of "The Bakers' and Millers' Act," and it became lav; on the Ist of January instant. The professed object of the Act is " the regulation of the sale of bread, and the pre- > ention of the adulteration of meal and Hour." For the information of those concerned we proceed to give an outline of its provisions :— : It provides that "all bread made for sale, or sold, or exposed for sale, within any part of New Zealand, must be made only of certain ingredients, viz. : —Pure and sound flour or meal of wheat, barley, rye, oats, buckwheat, Indian corn, peas, beans, rice, or potatoes, or any of them, witji common salt, pure water, eggs, milk, ba]m, leaven, potatqe, or other yeast, mixed in such proportions as may bo thought fit, but with no other ingredient whatsoever." Three kinds or classes qf bread may be sold : 1. Standard vvheaten bread of wheat flour only, without any mixture, and the whole produce of the grain, the bran only excepted. 2. "Household bread," composed as above, but containing a por-

lion of the bran. The loaves of this class must be stamped with a large letter H in. Roman type. 3. *' Mixed bread," which may be made wholly or partially of the meal of any other sort of grain than wheat, or of the flour of beans, peas, or potatoes. Such J oaves must be stamped- with a large letter M. The penalty for neglect to stamp the distinctive letter is 10s for every pound weight sold ; for not selling by weight, j£2 for every opence; for selling by other than avoirdu poise weight, from 5s to £5 ; for using unwholesome or unsound flour, ,£2O ; for using any other ingredient than those named in the Act, not more than £lO, nor less than £2, and the unwholesome or adulterating articles are to be confiscated. With regard to millers : they are also liable to several penalties For adul terating meal pr flour or .-oiling meal of one kind as that of any other sort, from £5 to £2O. The premises of bakers and millers are to be open for the inspection of any Justice or constable authorised by warrant under the hand of a Justice, "at all seasonable times in the daytime," and penalties aie to be imposed for obstructing the search for adulterating materials, &c. Penalties are recoverable in a summary way —one-half to be paid to the informer, and the other half to the consolidated fund. Justices of the Peace are protected froni any action or suit for anything they may do under the provisions of the Act.