The Daily News. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1901. RULES FOR WEIGHING BUTTER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 35, 15 February 1901, Page 2

The Daily News. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1901. RULES FOR WEIGHING BUTTER.

jMb Holmes well known in connection | with the fl ix industry and who has been I turning his attention lately to general [produce, cillcd on us last night. Ho [says that the question of the weight of buttev bus been causing a good deal |of friction for ,s;me time past and by the 1-st English mail be (Mr Holmes) received a copy of the regulations drawn up at home by buyers and which will in futura rule the purchase of Australasian' butter. They are as follows : Packages of about 56lbs to be weighed net to half a pound. Over weight on marked weights cannot bs included in average or charged for. Averages to be taken within thruj days but in fresh and mild goods at the earliest possihle tiiue. Teu per cent, of the bulk to bo weighed if required by buyers or sellers but ia cast) of hot weather not more than 5 per cent, to ba taken. Packages of 56 lbs each and under to be weighed to _b*lf a pound, above that to be weigh«d to a pouud, over weight on bonesj of uniform marked weights canrot be included in average nor chargad for. Mr Holmes paints out a fact that i« not always acted upoD, viz., that the Government regulations provide that 561b boxes should weigh 571bs when thoy are packed to provide f r shrinkago.