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SHIPMENT BY THE SOVIET LAW PROVIDES NO REDRESS COMPLAINT FROM LONDON URGENT NEED FOR ACTION ‘ By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 5.5 p.m. London, Aug. 1. The Soviet steamer Smolny discharged 12,000 barrels and 4000 boxes of Russian butter at London yesterday. The boxes, according to an Empire butter authority, are an exact copy of the boxes used by New Zealand. Every dimension is the same, and even the grading mark is stencilled on the outside. When the outer cover was removed there was nothing to enable the purchaser to distinguish between it and the New Zealand article.
“Unless the grocer himself uses an identifying ticket, under the present state of the law we have absolutely no remedy against the imitation of our boxes,” said a New Zealand butter expert, who added that tho incident indicated the urgent need for protective measures.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1931, Page 7
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