A GUIDE TO BAKERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1497, 1 October 1883, Page 2

A GUIDE TO BAKERS.

The following are the -clauses of the Adulteration Prevention Act Amendment, 1883, which refer to'.bakers :- _ 2. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eightythree. S '

, 3. In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context,*--. •'■' i '. "The said Act" means -."The, Adulteration Prevention Act, 1880 :"

"Inspector," in addition to any Inspector acting under tKsaid Act, includes any obhejL appointed by a local aufflwk'to do or perform any act qrjEuty which, under the said ActV tins. Act, may be done by of imposed upon an Inspector; " Local authority" means and includes any Borough Council, County Council, or Town Board respectively constituted under any Act of the General Assembly.

4. After the passing of this let n baker or seller of bread shall make sell, or offer for sale any bread no made up into French loaves or batch loaves of two, four, six, or eight pounds in weight respectively. 5. If any baker or seller of bread shall sell .or offer for sale any bread in any other manner than m French loaves or batch loaves of two, four, six, or eight pounds in weight ho shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding live pounds. Nothing in this Act shall extend or apply to bread of the class known as fancy bread. 6. Every French loaf and batch loaf shall be stamped with the initials of the Christian name or names and surname of the baker by whom the same was baked, and also with a figure or figures and letters indicating "the weight of such loaf, as pi escribed by this Act. •

Such initials shall be stamped in Roman letters.at least one inch in length at the time of stamping, and such figure or figures shall be in Arabic numerals of like length at the time of stamping; and every pprson baking oi' permitting to be baked any such loaf without having stamped or caused to be stamped thereon such initials and weight as aforesaid shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds." 7. Aiiy person who shall sell or.' offer for sale in any shop, store, or building, or in any street or open place of public resort, any French loaf or batch loaf which is not stamped in accordance with this Act shall be liable to ut penalty for every such offence not exceeding five pounds, 8. Any Inspector may, and he is hereby required from time to time, to inspect all bread offered for sale or in course of delivery to customers within the limits of the districts for which such Inspector has been appointed'or acts, and, if he shall think fit, to weigh the same with fit and proper scales and weights, or require the same to be weighed by any baker or/seller of bread who offers such bread for sale, or who is in the course of delivering the same to'customers.

9. If any bread so sold or offered for sale shall be found deficient in weight, any such baker or seller of bread who. shall so offend shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. (1.) Bu: no baker or seller of bread shall be liable to the' aforesaid penalty in respect of any stale bread. (2.) And if any baker or seller of bread shall sell any loaf 6t- : loaves of stalo bread which may be .found deficient in weight he shall make up such deficiency by adding thereto other bread; and if any baker or seller of bread sell any stale bread de-

ficient in weight without making up such deficiency as aforesaid, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fivar pounds. Ok. ; (3.) "Stale bread" means all%|: bread that may have been: manufactured for a period iof <-v twenty-four hours' and upwards. '•'•■ 10. Every person who shall wilfully resist, impede, or obstruct any Inspector appointed or acting under the provisions of this Act in the lawfuj execution of his duty shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds nor less than two pounds.

11. Every local authority may appoint one or more officers of police, or any other person or persons, to oe an Inspector or.lnspectors for the purposes of this Act, and every such Inspector shall, within the. district in or over which such local' authority has jurisdiction, have and may exercise all the powerji and authorises by the said Act or; this Act vepted in an Inspector-

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