FANCIES IN CHOCOLATES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18551, 8 November 1923, Page 10

FANCIES IN CHOCOLATES.

SOME TRADE SECRETS. [by telegraph. OWN correspondent.] WELLINGTON. Wednesday. " That's giving away trade secrets," remarked a witness in the Supreme Court yesterday, in a case arising out of a dispute oyer a confectionery shop. He stated that if chocolates were deteriorating in quality they were taken from the boxes and replaced with chocolates of an equal grade. It was difficult, however, to replace some lines, particularly the many American lines of which there were no bulk supplies. Lines of fancy boxes were often bought and tilled by the retailers from stocks in hand. In cross-examinatio.(, the witness stated that if a box of one make of chocolates required replacing, and no bulk supplies of the .same maker were available, the box was sold containing the chocolates of another maker. Very few purchasers asked for a particular maker's chocolates. If a man asked for a box of a particular maker and the chocolates were not in stock a statement would be made acordingly, but the purchaser might be shown a box with the name of the maker he was interested in, although it contained another maker's chocolates. The purchaser was generally satisfied with tin's if lie obtained his weight.