'A. native cigarette-manufacturer, of] No. 49 Kuling Road, was charged with having deliberately and with intent to rand the British-American Tobacco Company and others, forged and used the "Rooster" trademark on packets of cigarettes manufactured and sold by him.
Mr. R. N. Macleod appeared for the prosecution and stated the facts of the cane.
Detective-Sergeant Bray gave evidence as to searching the accused's. factory and finding there a large number of packeta of cigarettes bearing a trade-mark exactly similar to the Rooster " mark of the British-Ameri-'Tobacco Company. The only nce in the label was the name of the olga rette, which was described as *Two-cock " instead of Rooster.
The accused was fined $250 and ordered to give security that he would refrain from repeating the offence, and the Court ordered that all labels and packets of cigarettes in his shop, which bore the false trademark, be destroyed.
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