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New South Wales Bread Act. 



and that that country will consequently have very little, if any, 

 need of imported meat. Austria-Hungary may thus be 

 expected to look elsewhere for a market for her meat, and 

 would naturally turn to England, although it is felt that in 

 this instance there are much greater difficulties in the way 

 of establishing* a trade than in the case of other commodities. 



New South Wales Bread Act. 



The Board have received through the Colonial Office a 

 copy of an Act passed last year to regulate the sale of bread, 

 and to prevent its adulteration, in New South Wales. 



This Act provides that all bread shall be made from the 

 flour or meal of wheat, barley, rye, oats, buck wheat, Indian 

 corn, peas, beans, rice or potatoes, and with any common 

 salt, pure water, eggs, milk, barm, leaven, potato, or other 

 yeast. The addition of other substances (including alum) is 

 prohibited. 



Bread is to be made in loaves of i, 2, or 4 lbs., and bakers 

 selling loaves under weight are liable to a penalty unless 

 they can prove that such bread was baked more than 24 hours 

 previously ; this provision does not, however, apply to the sale 

 of fancy and other bread. Bread of wheat-flour, which flour 

 without any mixture or division is the whole produce of the 

 grain (the bran or hull only excepted), and which weighs 

 two-thirds of the wheat whereof it is made, shall be called 

 " standard wheaten bread." Wheaten bread made from an 

 inferior flour shall be called "household wheaten bread" 

 and the loaves must be marked with a large H. Bread made 

 wholly or partially from any other flour shall be called 

 mixed bread " and marked with a large M. 

 The mixing of any ingredient with corn or flour, or the 

 selling of one kind of flour for another, is prohibited. This 

 provision does not apply to material employed for cleansing 

 or preserving grain against smut, insects, etc., provided it be 

 effectually removed before grinding. 



