OTAGO LABOUR MEN MAKE ATTACK ON ADULTERATED FOODS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18938, 7 December 1929, Page 9

OTAGO LABOUR MEN MAKE ATTACK ON ADULTERATED FOODS.

Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, December 7. The Otago Labour Council passed a resolution that the National Council of the New Zealand Alliance of Labour should be requested to take such steps as it deems necessary to have the regulations under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act amended to prevent the sale of adulterated foods and artificial substitutes. “ Under existing regulations, liot only is the health of the people menaced, but artificially, chemically thickened, sweetened, flavoured, coloured and preserved goods, sold under spurious names suggestive of food substances, are deceptive.” It was resolved that the Alliance should be requested to consider the hardship endured by single girls and parents by the invasion of industry by married, childless women with husbands in employment. With a view to requesting the Government to discipline its married male servants to the extent that they should be required to prevent their wives from engaging in industry and competing with girls and women who had to support themselves. Further that the wages of such public servants should be sufficient to enable them to carry out their obligations to support their wives.”