THE BREAD TAX.
To THE EDITOB OF TfiE " EVENING MAIL." S*&, — I db not know of a greater exising evil than the tat fctft bh btead by the bakers in the way of short weight. 1 never receive a loaf from the bakers but it is taxed this" way. Purporting to be 4lbs, the loaves are often six ounces short of that weight, and nothing more common than four ; thus we are charged for bread we never receive, I which in time amonnts to a very considerable item. Where is our Inspector of Weights and Measures, and is there no law in existence to check this evil ? If not, it is high time there should be. Formerly, loaves under weight were forfeited and the baker was fined, but now in England a more lenient course is adopted by compelling bakers to sell by weight. They have always a spare loaf at hand, and if a loaf is not weight they are obliged to make it so. Why is not the same course adopted here ?— I am, &c, Housewife. SOth June, 1880.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 155, 30 June 1880, Page 2
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181THE BREAD TAX. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 155, 30 June 1880, Page 2
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