1534

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 44

(6.) No person shall sell any ice-cream or ices of which the nature or flavour is indicated or declared by the name of any fruit or fruits flavoured wholly or in part with any substance other than the fruit or fruits named, unless the said name is conjoined with the word “Imitation.”

VEGETABLES.

62. (1.) Vegetables shall be the succulent, clean, and sound edible parts of herbaceous plants commonly used for food.

(2.) Dried vegetables shall be the clean, sound products obtained by the desiccation of properly matured and prepared vegetables under conditions such that no harmful substance is absorbed by or mixed with them.

(3.) Canned or tinned vegetables shall be properly matured and prepared fresh vegetables, with or without salt, sterilized by heat, and packed in hermetically sealed containers.

FRUIT AND FRUIT-PRODUCTS.

Fruit.

63. (1.) Fruit if sold according to grade shall be graded as prescribed in regulations made under the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1908.

Preserved Fruit.

(2.) Preserved fruit shall be any sound fruit or fruit-substance preserved either by drying or by immersion in fruit-juice, or in water, or in syrup or by treatment with sulphur-dioxide gas. It shall not contain any added substance save sugar.

(3.) The presence of not more than seven grains of sulphur dioxide to the pound in dried fruits, unavoidably remaining from the process of bleaching, or of sulphur-dioxide in fruit-pulp in bulk for jam-making, shall not be deemed to constitute a contravention of this regulation.

Labelling.

(4.) There shall be written, in the label attached to every package of preserved fruit, the name or names of the fruit or fruits contained in the package in bold-faced capital letters of not less size than eighteen points face-measurement.

Jam and Conserve.

(5.) Jam and conserve shall be products obtained by boiling some one kind of sound fruit with sugar. They shall not contain any added glucose or any gelatine, starch, or any other substance except spices and apple-juice or gooseberry-juice: Provided that the proportion of added apple-juice or gooseberry-juice shall in no case exceed ten parts per centum.

Marmalade.

(6.) Marmalade shall be the product obtained by boiling sound citrus fruit or fruits with sugar. It shall not contain any added substance other than glucose.

Labelling.

(7.) (a.) There shall be written in the label attached to every package containing jam, conserve, or marmalade, in bold-faced sans-serif capital letters of not less than eighteen points face-measurement the words “Jam,” “Conserve,” or “Marmalade,” as the case may require. There shall be also written in the said label in bold-faced sans-serif capital letters of not less than eighteen points face-measurement the name of the fruit or fruits from which the contents of the package have been prepared.

(b.) There shall be written in the label attached to every package which contains any marmalade mixed with more than ten parts per centum of glucose the words “Mixed with glucose” in bold-faced sans-serif capital letters of not less size than eighteen points face-measurement. The said words shall be the first line in the label, and no other word shall appear on the same line with them.

Mixed Jams.

(8.) Mixed jam shall be the product obtained by boiling two or more varieties of sound fruit with sugar. The variety of fruit first named in the label shall constitute not less than fifty parts per centum of the total fruits present. Mixed jam shall not contain any