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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9808, 1 May 1895, Page 3

The fraudulent marking of produce in the old country has been carried on for a considerable timo. Ab length, in a circular lately issued, the British Board of Agriculture has met the farmers and fruitgrowers more than half-way. The Daily News says thab tho British dealers have long complained thab they are heavily handicapped by theabsolute freedom of imposture in the mode of deecribing fruits and vegetables which dealers now enjoy. Honestlydescribed British goods are thus often thrust out of tho market by the mere magic of a name which does not properly belong to the articles in competition with them. The Board now offers to institute prosecutions under the Merchandise Marks Act, 1894, for offences of this sort, and ib has drawn up a set of regulations for this purpose with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor. The Board has no doubb that frauds of tho kind complained, including those based on misrepresentations of the place of origin, may be dealt with under the Act. Agriculturists and others concerned in finding a remedy, must, however, co-operate heartily with the authorities in furnishing all needful particulars, and for this reason the circular is to bo widely dispowißabed throughout tho country.