RESTRICT THE IMPORTATION OF INFERIOR GOODS.
? TO THE EDITOR. Sir— Your Matarawa correspondent makes Borne novol but very good suggestions. Establishing a law compelling morchants and dealers to name thoir goods what they roally are, under a heavy penalty, wonld no doubt restrict tho importation on a large scale of inferior goods. And why should this not bo done ? Suroly it is a fraud to pass any merchandise off a3 made of matorial it is not. By tho sarao rule it is a fraud to call an article silver which is only nickel. Tho British Consul, Mr. Longford, writing from Tokio, Japan, says that English manufactured flannols had established a good name in that market, but that latterly German flannels of an inferior make bearing the English brands had been substituted by tho British merohant, which was soriously damaging tho trade. I am, &c, Fair Trade.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 153, 29 December 1887, Page 4
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146RESTRICT THE IMPORTATION OF INFERIOR GOODS. Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 153, 29 December 1887, Page 4
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