STOPPING BAD TEA.

Patea Mail, 4 September 1882, Page 3

STOPPING BAD TEA.

The Government Tea Bill is just distributed. It declares that all imported tea shall be subject io the be detained for examination by an officer of Customs. Samples of all tea imported may, when deemed necessary, be taken without payment, and may be examined by an analytical chemist. If the tea is unfit for human consumption, the whole of the packages bearing the same brand or marks as the packages of tea from which such samples were taken, shall be deemed to be goods prohibited to be imported, and shall be forfeited. Provided however that the importer or owner of such tea shall be entitled to take legal proceedings against Her Majesty for the purpose of determining the liability to forfeiture of such tea. If upon examination the tea shall be found to be exhausted tea, or to be mixed with other substances; deleterious or otherwise, or with exhausted tea, the Commissioner may order that the whole of the packages of tea shall not be delivered either for Home consumption dr for exportation, unless upon such terms and conditions as he shall think fit. If any person, either as owner or importer, be found to have more than twice imported such tea, the Commissioner may cause

such person’s name and place of abode to be published, at the expense of sucli person, in some newspaper circulating in the district in which he has his usual place of business, and such expense shall be recoverable as a debt due to the Crown.— Cor. Wanganui Herald.