BEST ONES ON TOP.
CHINAMAN FINED. (By Telegraph—Special to Standard.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 20. The practice of endeavouring to gain a better price for vegetables by ' putting the good stuff at the top of the sack is not regarded favourably by Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M. “Ah Kee was charged at the Police Court with selling unwholesome vegetables. A plea of guilty was entered on his behalf, and it was explained that he had bought some potatoes at the city markets. He had rebagged them and sent them back to the markets to bo sold for him. Sub-Inspector McCarthy pointed out that in rebagging them the Chinese had put 20 per cent of the potatoes that were any good on the top of the sacks. Defendant was fined £2 with costs.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 251, 21 September 1929, Page 8
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130BEST ONES ON TOP. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 251, 21 September 1929, Page 8
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