SAGO AND TAPIOCA.
Recent -coses tried in Englan&&how>;thai: the displacement of sago by tapioca-, hass been very rapid and is world -wide".; Pro.j--ceedings -were instituted against- several traders fe» selling tapioca as--.-sago.. Thee defence ssttuji was a rather mere .convincing one is generally the case in. such customer asked for: sago and got - tapiocas he obtainofL what he wanted... The onljv article soliji os sago was a wMtftssubstttnce";: called tagicca. - The real > sago was san brown suHstance, which hadvgqne out; of-, use and was: extremely difficult "to obtain,, and whsn:£fe was sold to cusfcj«nes»:itcweft; ■ back and tapioca.. ; There was no question, offraud, for tapigeai was the more costly«. and. an, epicurs jconld not tell tha. iin taste. The- Bench- dismissed , thee cas«e>, though;* a&itfce same an retailers shouldidrqp ihgenajae? of sagg, when selling tapipca,- as., some magistyttbss might interprst 4 the. c Aet mora; strietlj&. Ib Victoria no s*go-is used, lie of; tapioca in matotyr 2,750,0001b and thoses of but o£» s set. jdown by the Customs-.authbriti®* afr coHajderabfy more thaav the- iiJipwtS; Whjese; thei difference fi£pfci *•» no * t ' stated,, bo£< is probably tapioca-masquerade iagj-under the name of sago.-, It cegtadhly* se«#a» strange that tracier»;-cannot der.aiway vpii-h tha name sago \al^ : tfiefr Aigtomesrs .with Bvideaiiy- n» is generally intended," blot- thfenaca®of applying a misnprner does* wit wfefc heatce should be si;Bi£(kped:<tt*fet..
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3461, 4 January 1901, Page 3
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221SAGO AND TAPIOCA. Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3461, 4 January 1901, Page 3
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