PURE FOOD BILL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8535, 14 September 1907, Page 5

PURE FOOD BILL.

(By Telegraph—Parliamentary Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, Last Night. In the Legislative Council, to-day, the Pure Food Bill was considered in committee. A new clause was pioposed by the Attorney-General—(l) Every person commits an offence who selis any bread except by weight or who sells any bread the weight of •which, at the time of sale, is lens than the seller represents it to be, or is less than the weight which the buyer demands; (2) the Governor may, by regulations, from time to time provide that any particular (lass of bread may be sold otherwise than by weight notwithstanding anything in this section. Attorney-General, replying to Slfiestion, said lhat fie regulations would provide for lancy bread being exempted. This brought the Labour members to their feet with protests against the second sub-clause as defeating the aim of the first portion of the section and playing into the hands of the bakers. What they asked for was that bread should be sold by weight and the imposition of a penalty for under-weight bread. Eventually a compromise was arrived at, the Attorney-General agreeing that the regulations should only refer to" bread under 21b weight. The clause as amended was adopted.