Feb. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 505

and the said Regulation 13 is hereby further amended by deleting from the list therein contained the words “cream of tartar substitutes,” and inserting in place thereof the words “Acid phosphate for use in food.”

2. Regulation 31 of the principal regulations is hereby revoked, and the following regulation substituted therefor :—

ACID PHOSPHATE.

31. (1.) Acid phosphate, for use in food, shall contain not more than one part per centum of sulphates (calculated as calcium sulphate, CₐSO₄), and its acidity shall be not less than the acidity of cream of tartar.

Labelling.

(2.) There shall be written in the label attached to every package containing an acid phosphate for use in food the chemical name of the acid salt. Such name shall be conspicuously written in bold-faced sans serif capital letters of not less size than twelve points face-measurement. The words “Cream of Tartar,” or any contraction of them, or any words which resemble or suggest cream of tartar shall not be written in any label attached to a package containing acid phosphate for use in food.

3. Regulation 36 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by revoking clause (16) thereof.

4. Regulation 42 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by adding to clause (2) thereof, after the word “concentrated,” the words “It shall be clean and non-rancid.”

SOAP.

Domestic or Household Soap.

5. (1.) Unless otherwise standardized in these regulations, soap for human use shall be sold only in some one of the three following grades, which are hereby prescribed as standards in respect of soaps used by man, namely :—

(a.) First-grade soap, which shall be soap containing, with water and combined alkali, not less than sixty-two parts per centum of fatty acids, of which not more than one-quarter may be replaced by rosin acids; not more than one part per centum of alkaline salts as sodium silicate or sodium carbonate; not more than two-tenths of one part per centum of free caustic alkali; and no substance commonly known or intended to act as a “filler”; but may contain drugs, medicaments, harmless colouring-matter, and harmless perfume;

(b.) Second-grade soap, which shall be soap containing, with water and combined alkali, not less than fifty-five parts per centum of fatty acids, of which not more than two-fifths may be replaced by rosin acids; not more than three parts per centum of alkaline salts as sodium silicate or sodium carbonate; not more than five-tenths of one part per centum of free caustic alkali; and no substance commonly known or intended to act as a “filler”; but may contain drugs, medicaments, harmless colouring-matter, and harmless perfume;

(c.) Third-grade soap, which shall be soap containing, with water and combined alkali, not less than forty parts per centum of fatty acids, of which not more than two-thirds may be replaced by rosin acids; not more than nine parts per centum of alkaline salts as sodium silicate or sodium carbonate; not more than five-tenths of one part per centum of free caustic alkali, and no substance commonly known or intended to act as a “filler”; but may contain drugs, medicaments, harmless colouring-matter, and harmless perfume.

Labelling.

(2.) (a.) All words which by this regulation No. 5 are in any case required to be used in the labelling of soap shall be embossed, impressed, stamped, or otherwise marked with letters of the size hereinafter specified in or upon the surface of each separate bar or cake of soap, and if the soap is contained in a wrapper or package, such wrapper or package shall also bear such words, and no words which by this regulation are in any case forbidden to be used in the labelling of soap shall