"MADE IN GERMANY"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 3, 28 September 1917, Page 4

"MADE IN GERMANY"

* A SOLDIER'S PAIR OF GLOVES. Enemy goods are still being sold in Wellington. Mr. Wilford told a story and produced an exhibit in the House of Representatives yesterday. A returned soldier, he said, had bought a pair ofwhito cotton gloves to wear at a returned soldiers' dance a few days 6ince, and he made the purchase in a shop in Manners Street. Ho was disgusted to find that the gloves were branded on the inside of the wrist jn bold bine type, "Made in Germany." Mr. Wilford suggested tnat after three years of war this sort of thing should not be going on. It was ' ;l , . over the limit' 1 that a mail who Tiadjieen out fighting tlw Huns should be offered a pair of Hun gloves in his own country. The Prima Minister said that the Government was utterly opposed to this sort of thing in every way. The Government wished to put down trading/with tlie enemy in every possible way. . The Hon. A. L. Herdmnn said tnat he would like tlie honourable member to let him have the gloves, and lie would hiwe the police investigate the matter fully. Jde bad been informed by Mr. Craig, of tne Customs Department,' that he was quite certain that trading with the enemy had absolutely stopped. It was, however impossible to. prevent tradespeople nom disposing of old stocks.