On This Day
On This Day, 6 September 1918
On 06, Sep 2018 | In On This Day | By Nicola Gauld
Birmingham Mail
Friday 6 September 1918
OVERCHARGING FOR JAM.
William Stockley Ward, jun., grocer, of 71, Winson Green Road, Birmingham, was fined £20 and costs at the Birmingham Police Court this morning for selling to Mrs. Rose Welters on August 26 2lb.of black currant and apple jam at 2s. 4d., the maximum price allowed to be charged being 1s. 9d. Mr. Norman Birkett, for the defence, urged that the overcharge was an inadvertence, the defendant being overworked as the result of his father breakdown in health.
