DECEPTIVE PACKAGES
Demonstration In Lords
(Special Correspondent N.ZJ’.A.) LONDON, December 13.
A fancy cosmetics jar with a false bottom was exhibited in the House of Lords by Lord Alexander of Hillsborough, the Labour leader, in support of an argument that the Board of Trade should be given power to lay down regulations to govern the size, shape and material of containers used in the sale of certain goods. “This is a fancy cosmetics vase very beautifully prepared with a nice lot of gold round the side and labelled ‘skin food.'” he said, “but cutting away a section reveals a false bottom and it contains little more than half the • quantity anyone would assume it to have.” Lord Hawke said he was always amazed that a housewife was willing to pay an enormous price for what was often little more than “scented butter and fats.” Many other examples of “deceptions” were quoted—detergents, incompletely-filled “giant size” packages, chocolate boxes partly filled with shavings, and canned fruit in which some of the weight consisted of fluid. Lord St. Oswald, for the Government, agreed to consider ’an appeal from speakers on all sides for the strengthening of controls over quantities before the new Weights and Measures Bill was finally presented.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29389, 16 December 1960, Page 14
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