A letter written in 1925

A letter dated June 6, 1925, written by my grandfather, G.H. Shepherd, to the Municipal Board Superintendent about octroi that had to be paid on a parcel. This was in response
to a
The parcel containing jaggery and sweetmeats weighing 3 1/2 seers which included the packaging.
This was decades before cellophane and aluminium foil
and today's packaging machines, so the letter mentions
'fat' and the box whose total weight was 3 1/2 seers.

Those were simpler days with simpler solutions!