OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1928, Page 2

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

(British Official Wireless.) TR ADE PREFERENCE. RUGBY, August 7. The Government has appointed a committee to supervise the carrying nut of an act recently passed by Parliament for the grading and marking of agricultural produce. The committee is as follows: Lord Darling (chairman), Sir F. A. Jones, and Sir William Peat. The Committee will have the power to authorise the use of a prescribed mark, and to suspend or revoke the right to use it in individual cases, if necessary. A Trade Committee lias been set up to deal with the applications. The national mark sysetem is regarded as a great reform in the marketing of British-grown produce. The mark, which will identify the produce as British, and will he a guarantee of specific standard, will he a inap-of England with a circle enclosing the Union Jack. It will he applied at the outset to fruit, beginning with apples and pears, as Irom September 1. It will he extended to eggs next January, and later oil to other lorms of English farm produce. The mark will be accompanied by a number and by other indications of identity, so that complaints may be followed up.

The scheme is a voluntary one, but if the goods do not conform to the standard specified, the purchaser will be entitled to recover damages for a breach of warranty or a breach of contract.