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AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (GRADING AND MARKING) ACT, 1928.
MERCHANDISE MARKS ACT, 1926.
The administration of the above-mentioned Acts has been attended with little difficulty
in persuading affected parties to conform to the requirements. Casual street vendors, as
a rule, still appear to have little knowledge of the requirements of the law, but those regularly
engaged in this kind of work, having once been acquainted by the Inspector of their obligations,
very readily remedy any omission. In shops and stores defect is almost invariably
due to the failing of assistants to carry out the proprietors' instructions. The marked
improvement in packing and grading of produce is very evident.
During the year 2,261 shops and 685 street vendors were visited, and 14 minor offences
in connection with the former, and 18 in the latter, were remedied without delay.
Twenty new orders were issued under the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking)
Act, 1928.