WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 658, 4 January 1881, Page 2

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

[To theEditorof the Waibarafa-Dam],

■ Sib, —It is now upwards „of 21 yeara I since I addressed a memorial to the then Jj Governor of New Zealand, praying him H that the Government would bring into | operation the Weights and Measures Or- j dinance (passed by the Legislative I Council) within the province of Taranaki, M to whioh memorial I received the enclosed reply j and in handing the- same to you for publication I would beg lo ask- you whether the. Borough Council of Masterton have or have not the power to make provision for enforcing the Act above referred to or any other Act that might have been passed by the Legislature within their _ jurisdiction. Municipal Corporation in England are invested with these powers,_ and.l believe that the New Zealand Municipal Corporations Act 1876 gives the Municipal authorities power 'to deal with this 'matter. It ia important, that they should take the subject into, their.: immediate consideration, It seems to me a strange thing that a person holding .tfie office of Inspector of Weight* and Measures for Masterton should, live in Wellington. lam inclined • ... to think that it r would- tend more to the interests of thejeople of the borough that an officer should be appointed in the 1 immediate locality, :whose. duty it .would .be to test the articles now in use as . weights, - measures,','beams, scales, 'and other weighing machinery. I art) of -opinion that this subject is one importance, .but; probably it" might be a delioale. matter for tho Daiit fo'touoh on. but as the DiHT.and the Borough.Council, ought to. maintain thMharaoter<)f.the public interest, that interest Can'only be served when' only' true' weights .and measures.are allowed to be used, , •• - • " I am, (bo., ■ , T-.W. Shu,., [We believe that the last time an Inapec* tor visited thrr Wairarapa he found that storekeepers 'were cheating themselves by keeping weights over the standard, t . We have nflt .heard a single complaint ' tlratjwould' lead/ us to' the conofuaiqra T^ qiro protecl;i(,D i r *