BRITISH PRODUCE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 202, 9 August 1928, Page 7

BRITISH PRODUCE

NATIONAL MARK SYSTEM CONSIDERED A GREAT REFORM. COMMITTEE’S POWERS. (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, August 7. The Government has appointed a committee to supervise the carrying out of the Act which has recently been passed by Parliament, for grading and marking agricultural produce. The chairman of the committee is Lord Darling, a well known

former judge, and: the other members! are Sir F. A Jones,! legal adviser to the! Ministry of Agri- 1 culture and Sir! William Peat, an I eminent chartered! accountant. The committee I will have power to I authorise the use I of a prescribed" mark and to suspend or revoke the

right to use it in an individual case, if necessary. They will watch the general working of the scheme and advise the Government on changes that experience may prove to be necessary, A trade committee has been set up to deal with applications. The national mark system is regarded as a great reform in the marketing of Brirish-grown produce. The mark which will identify produce as British and guarantee a specified standard will be a map of England. It will be applied at the outset to fruit, beginning with apples and pears from September 1. It will be extended to eggs next January and later on to other forms ot English farm produce. The mark will be accompanied by a number of other indications of the identity of the producer, so that complaints may be followed up. The scheme- is a voluntary one, but if goods could not conform with the standard specified a purchaser will be entitled to recover damages for breach of warranty or breach of contract.