SHORT WEIGHT.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir.—-As an experiment, I took the trouble last week of weighing my bread,
received irom one of our local bakers, as it was received every morning, and the following is the result of my investigations on the weight of the 41b loaf : —Monday, 7 ozs short weight ; Tuesday, 4 ditto ; Wednesday, 2 ditto ; Thursday, 2 ditto ; Friday. 4 ditto; Saturday, 3 ditto; making in all during the 6 days a total of 22 ozs deficiency. This may perhaps be all right and proper, and I daresay the correct and unanswerable answer that will be made to ray objections is that “it is the rule of the trade,” but I have an idea that if such is the case the sooner the rule is altered the better. Wo are charged the highest price for everything in Temuka, and we have at least a right to get just and fair weight. A short calculation will show that 22 ozs of bread per week amounts to about 10s worth in the year, reckoning the 41b loaf afc 7d,so that if a baker has 100 customers to whom he delivers a 41b loaf every morning he cheats them to the extent of £SO per annum. —I am, etc. Temuka Scales.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 9418, 13 June 1882, Page 3
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211SHORT WEIGHT. Temuka Leader, Issue 9418, 13 June 1882, Page 3
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