The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1883. THE BAKERS' BILL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 195, 25 July 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1883. THE BAKERS' BILL.

Thk Colonial Secretary has introdaced a useful and necessary jneMure, the object of which is to prevent customers being defrauded by purchasing bread of light weight. The Bill provides that an inspector may hv appointed by the "local authority," which means any

Borough Council, County Uounoil, or Town Board, duly constituted, and his <ivty shall be to inspect from time to time all bread offered for sale or m coarse of delivery to customers within the limits of the district for which he has been appointed ; and it he shall think fit he may weigh the bread, or cause it to be weighed by any baker or Beller who offers Bach bread for sale, or who is m cours» of delivering the same to customers. The penalty for lightweight is a fine not exceeding fire pounds. Ciause three says that after the passing of this Act no baker or Beller ot bread shall make, sell, or offer for sale any bread not made up into loaves of two, four, six, or eight pounds respectively under a penalty not exceed, ing five pounds. Stale bread, that is bread which has been manufactured for a period of twenty-four hours, is exempted from penalty as regaids weight ; but it is provided that if such loaves are found deficient, the baker or seller must make up such deficiency by adding other bread to b ing' it up to the proper weight, or he will become liable to a penalty similar to the other*. Clause seven states that every person who shall wilfully resist or obstruct any Inspector, appointed or acting under the provisions of the Act, shall be liable to a penalty sot exceeding ten pounds, nor less than two pounds Nothing m the Act is made to apply to « fancy bread," which is interpreted to mean " all bread of the kind usually sold as cottage loaves, twists, French loaves ; and all small bread not exceeding m any case one pound weight." These are the main provisions of the bill, whioh, if it becomes law, will do muth to check an evil which prevails to a considerable extent.