WEIGHT OF BUTTER.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1918, Page 4

WEIGHT OF BUTTER.

\ 'AN INTERESTING CASE. ' "I By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, July 18. In the Supreme Court this morning, Mr. Justice Chapman heard a case in which Joseph Nathan and Co. appealed against a decision of Mr. M'Carthy, S.\L, imposing a fine in Jannary, 1917, for selling short-weiglit butter to Killiam Gampbell, grocer. Appellants' counsel said the company manufactured the "Defiance" butter. On January 8, HH!7(, Campbell purchased 481b of butter from the firm, the package being labelled lib. On January 10 Inspector Cowderoy purchased a package of the butter from Campbell's assistant, and, on weighing it, found that it was 5 drachms short. The charge was laid for having a misleading label, under section 12 of the Sale of Food! and Drugs Act.- It was contended that the short-weight was. caused by too close adjustment of the wires ill defendants' cutting machine. For defendants, counsel contended that there was not a case to answer. The s aie had not been proved On the same day that the inspectoi was said to have bought the butter at Campbell he also purchased from another store the same brand of butter, yhich was well over the weight. His Honor, after hearing the 'evidence, said that a prWbaMe case had been made out, but he thought something more | should >be made out in a case like this. He did not think it had been proved aa conclusively as it should. The appeal was allowed.