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BRITISH IMPORTS POSSIBLE I N DICATION (Reed. July C, 9 a.m.) LONDON, July 5 Speaking in t'he Mouse of Commons, the President of the Board of Trade. Mr. Oliver Stanley, foreshadowed legislation making the words ‘'foreign’ and “Empire” unusable in future to designate imported goods. Instead of the vague term “Empire, the words Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, etc., must be used, so that buyers would know the exact countiy of origin. Mr. Stanley said that the Board of Trade had given instructions in all ports and docks that all foreign goods not properly marked should be seized. This was likely to apply to any further importations of Japanese salmon, which had been marked Can.” leading housewives to believe that it was a. Canadian product. The Daily Express points, out that lately Japan rechristened a matchmaking town Sweden, sending out products marked “Made in Sweden.’ japan also plans to rename many towns after famou.J British manufacturing centres.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19982, 6 July 1939, Page 5
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