To the Editor of the 'Evening Mail.'
Sir. — Can any of your rpaders tell me how . itis that when I go to a sbop tp buy a pound of woollen ysrn; I only get twelve ounces P 1 We know that the wool grown here is sold at sixteen ouncea to the pound. What process does it undergo before it gets b*ck here ns yarn that deprives it- of four ounce* ? rls - there any Colonial law that regulates by "what weight certain things- .shall be sold ? Is it the cuitom in England to sell woollen yarn by troy weight ? — Yours, &c, Enquiree. -. _• Motueka, June's, 1876. ,< - - ', . . c
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 144, 9 June 1876, Page 2
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