GUARDING AGAINST DECEPTION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12815, 15 July 1912, Page 2

GUARDING AGAINST DECEPTION.

(Special to , ; \.. t .. /WELLINGTON," this/diyV ' v ' l.'lTh'e f^ufetqms Depa"ctment .has imr)ortant powferV'' in' dealing .with/'.irrt'port-d goods/ bearing fraudulent ; descriptions, and this power ' is} tbb.e rigorously used to protect New Zealand- workers* aiid c6nsuhi.rs > " states' the Mini-ter' -of OuptomX, the Hon'/ F. M. B. Fisher. Clothing'goods marked "gehuine all through" flave" been'' found to -contain shoddy material inside, but this- 'class of goods &ill not m fuiture be allowed to-. come into the' cduntry. ' New Zealanders have also to be protected , by. the. Customs fVonv another fraud. "Large' q„ahtiti*-s pf goods are being manufactured on tbe Continent under /sweating conditions by people paid Is lOd to 3's a day, the goods being marked "Best quality, made fn London/ arid Yhe.nV slupge_'Vt6' ' ''NeSV ZeatandV via London, thus escaping the ; jpreferehtial' *diitv' imposed-;' on foreign niad ; 3 goods. ' C-Vie of the 'duties'' of a hew Customs e_ser,t to be _tatiori.d ' in' England on behalf of' tb'e New Zealand Custom, authorities,- will, ibe. to advise them m these. nrat-erß. ;> „ ' •i;