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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 105, 11 January 1912, Page 8

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• Apropos of tradesmen being fined for selling light-weight toad in Wellington, " "M.J." writes to the Evening Post to 1 the effect that the practice of giving I short weight is not confined to the bakers, but that grocers are equal offenders. He quotes a case where he went a case where he went to a baker's shop to purchase >bread, and selected a 21b loaf from many on the counter,.tendering 3»/ s d. The baker would not let ' him nave it, but brought one from the 'I bake-house. "M.J." asked thebaker to i weigh the latter'loaf, but this request I met with a decided refusal, "and when (ha saw I was determined to get my proper weight he gave me back my money. . . It seems to me also that bread- sold from the window is different to bread sold out of carts, in regard to both quality and weight." 'As to the grocers; a correspondent says he has /seen more than one deal unfairly by children. A child goes into a shop for a pennyworth of biscuits, and is given lib of inferior quality, such as 4d wine or 6d mixed. Now, that work* out at la 4d a pound " "MJ." also complains that many bakers'do not keep scales in their shops.. He suggests that "bread should be solid as in London—2lb weight for the price of 2d, and be weighed on the counter, with a piece out from an- [ other loaf to make up weight, and that! I small rolls should be taken round in the carts, and one given with .each 2lb loaf purchased at the door." He alleged that he could quote several cases in respect to coal and milk, and says the inspector if he so desires, get his name and 1 address from the Post, and "if writes to me or calls upon me, I will gi re him an idea where to find - unsorupuloua tradesmen." r