IMPORTANT TO BAKERS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2364, 2 June 1892, Page 1

IMPORTANT TO BAKERS.

(N.Z. Times.) One of the measures prepared by Ministers for submission to Parliament next session js intituled ‘An Act to Amend the Law Relating to the sale of Bread.’ Among other things it proposes to relax the stringency of the law with respect to the sale of fancy bread. The Bill has been drafted on the lines of recent legislation in the Old Country, and while thoroughly protecting the public from fraud, it will not fall with unreasoning severity upon the purveyors of the staff of life. In order that those whom it immediately concerns may have the opportunity of making themselves acquainted with the proposed legislation, and may be enabled to suggest in good time whatever amendments may seem to them expedient, we append the leading provisions. Sub-sections 1,2, and 3, of clause 3 are as follow :

(1.) All bread generally known as ‘householder’ or ‘ batch ’ bread made for sale shall be made into loaves weighing not less than two pounds and four pounds respectively, and such loaves shall be. called and understood to be the two pounds loaf and the four pounds loaf. (2.) Every person who makes for sale, or sells or offers for sale, any loaf of household or batch bread which shall lie found deficient of its due weight when, weighed in shop, house, or premises, at the time it is sold or offered for sale, shall be required to make good any such deficiency at the time of sale ; and any such per'.on who shall sell or cause to he sold any such loaf of bread which shall bo deficient of its proper weight, and which deficiency has not boon made good at the time of its being so sold or offered for sale, the proof of which shall be on the baker or seller thereof, shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings. (3.) Any person who may purchase any such loaf of bread from any such baker or seller of bread may, if he or she shall tliink proper, require the same to be immediately weighed in his or her presence, Clause 4 enacts that all bread other than household or batch bread shall be sold under the denomination of French or fancy bread; and nothing herein shall extend or be construed to extend to prevent any baker or seller of bread from making or selling such French or fancy bread of snob weight or size as lie shall think fit, and without previously weighing the same.

The sth and last danse repeals the Adulteration Prevention Acts Amendment Act of last year.

The Government Engineer of Honduras who regulates the mahogany cut estimates tho value of tho trees now ready for tho market at £40,000.