WINE TRADE ALARMED
SALE OF INFERIOR GOODS STRICTER CONTROL PROMISED Special Correspondent Rec. 9 p.m. LONDON. Apl. 15. . The Government proposes to make changes in the Pure Food and Drugs Act compelling all retailers of wines and spirits to give details of the contents on the labels of all goods offered for sale. This is designed to check get-rich-quick merchants, who are fleecing the public by selling bogus or inferior grade wines and spirits at exorbitant prices. Liquor recently seized by the police in West End night clubs and hotels was found to be not only cheap rubbish, but in some cases definitely injurious to health. Combinations of sugar and vinegar have been discovered masquerading as sherry, and in one case chloroform was found in synthetic wine. For some time the wine and spirit trade has been pressing the Food Minister. Mr John Strachey, to take action to protect the good name of the industry, and it is now learned that definite measures are proposed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26437, 16 April 1947, Page 5
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