SHORT WEIGHT OF BREAD.
(7b the Editor of the Daily Times.) Sir. —You will greatly oblige a lot of poor men working on the roads, by stating in your paper if there is any law for short weight bread. Short weights are carried on to a most exteusive pitch in the country, and we poor men are compelled to submit to short weight because bakers and storekeepers are some .miles from each other. I weighed several of the loaves my mates bought, and found them-four ounces to six ounces short weight. Bread with us iw one shilling per loaf: I told the baker: he replied there is no law in Otago tor short weights. Trusting you -will assist us in the case, I am. Sir, Your obedient Servant, , ' " . ' John Jaoksoh. Woolshed Diggings, Nov. 10* -
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 281, 13 November 1862, Page 5
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134SHORT WEIGHT OF BREAD. Otago Daily Times, Issue 281, 13 November 1862, Page 5
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