GERMAN GOODS SOLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17339, 10 December 1919, Page 11

GERMAN GOODS SOLD.

PROTEST BY RETURNED MEN. AN AUCKLAND INCIDENT. An indignant discussion wag aroused at the meeting of the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association Executive last evening by receipt of a letter from an Auckland business man, enclosing an ink-eraser, j which, he stated, had been sold in Auckland during the last three weeks. Tho enclosed eraser was of a green rubber and clearly stamped with the name of toe maker oil one side and "Made in Germany" on the other. It was undated. Mr. T. Long stated that by an oversight the matter had not been brought before the Prime Minister yesterday. "We should give the greatest publicity to this matter, he said, "to show that German stuff is being sold in Auckland by so-called patriotic firms." j Mr. V. Atkinson suggested that the ! eraser had been imported before the war, and that the vendor had been ashamed . to offer it for sale during the fighting j period. It might possibly have been old , stock which the shopkeeper was trying to get rid of. "It doesn't matter if it was," Teplied Mr. E. W. Inder. The chairman, Mr. G. Eliott, moved that full publicity be given to the incident and also to the name of the vendor as a protest against tho sale of German goods. This was carried unanimously.