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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 37

11. Regulation 62 of the principal regulations, relating to vegetables, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following :—

“CANNED OR TINNED DRIED PEAS.

“(4) Canned or tinned dried peas shall be peas which have been matured and dried naturally or artificially before being canned or tinned.

“Labelling.

“(5) (a) In the label attached to every package containing canned or tinned dried peas there shall be uniformly written in bold-faced sans serif capital letters of not less size than eighteen points face measurement the words ‘Dried peas soaked and processed’; and the label shall also clearly indicate the name of the country in which the peas have been canned or tinned.

“Prohibitions.

“(6) The word ‘green’ or the word ‘fresh,’ and any expression, device, or design which suggests that the contents are equivalent to fresh green peas canned immediately at the stage of early maturity when taken from the green pods, shall not be written on or attached to the label of any package containing canned or tinned dried peas; nor shall any statement be written on any such label referring to a graded size of peas unless in the country of origin there is a system of size-grading either established by regulation or generally agreed upon and practised in the trade.”

12. Regulation 69 of the principal regulations, relating to lime-juice cordial or syrup is hereby amended by adding to subclause (2) thereof, after the words “ten parts per centum,” the words “It shall comply with the standard for pure fruit cordials and syrups.”

13. Regulation 70 of the principal regulations, relating to lemon-juice cordial or syrup, is hereby amended by adding to subclause (3) thereof, after the words “ten parts per centum,” the words “and shall comply with the standard for pure-fruit cordials and syrups.”

14. Regulation 84 of the principal regulations, relating to drugs, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following sub-clause :—

“GLANDULAR PREPARATIONS.

“(8) In the label attached to every package containing any preparation of which thyroid gland forms an ingredient, a statement shall be prominently written in the following form :—

‘Danger.—This preparation should not be used except under medical direction.’”

15. Regulation 86 of the principal regulations, relating to disinfectants, germicides, and antiseptics, as amended by Order in Council gazetted on 26th June, 1930, is hereby further amended by adding thereto the following :—

“Prohibition.

“(6) No person shall pack a disinfectant or poisonous substance of any description in a container which bears upon it any brand, mark, or statement indicating the presence in such container of a food or drug for internal use, or which may be capable of misleading a purchaser into the belief that the contents of such container are for the purpose of human consumption.

“LYSOL.

“(7) Lysol shall be a clear saponaceous solution containing not less than fifty parts per centum of cresol, and shall have a carbolic-acid co-efficient of not less than 2 (two) as determined by the Rideal-Walker method. Its efficiency shall not be materially reduced in the presence of organic matter; it shall not separate out into layers; it shall be miscible with both hard and soft waters; and it shall not corrode metals or stain textile fabrics, nor be affected by heat.”

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.