(SEAT REFORM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 August 1928, Page 5

(SEAT REFORM

MARKETING BRITISH PRODUCE

A NATIONAL MARK

GUARANTEE OF STANDARD

(Special to Press Association)

RUGBY, 6th August. Tlie Government has appointed a committee to supervise the carrying out of the Act recently passed by Parliament for grading and marketing agricultural produce. The committee consists of Lord Darling (chairman), Sir F. A. Jones and Sir William Peat.

The committee will have power to authorise the use of a. prescribed mark and suspend or revoke the right to use it in individual cases if necessary. A trade committee has been set up to deal witli applications. A national mark system is regarded as' a great reform in the marketing of British-grown produce. The mark, which will identify produce as British, and be the guarantee of a specific standard, will be a map of England with a circle enclosing the Union Jack. It will be applied at the outset to fruit, beginning with apples and pears, from Ist September. It will be extended to eggs next January and later on to other forms of English farm produce. Tiie mark will he accompanied by a number of other indications of identity, so that complaints may he, followed up. The scheme is a voluntary one, but if the goods do not conform to the standard specified, the purchaser will bo entitled to recover damages fair breach of warranty or breach of contract.