Section 1

as to the number, quantity, measure, gauge or weight of any goods;

as to the place or country in which any goods were made or produced;

as to the mode of manufacturing or produc-ing any goods;

as to the material of which any goods are composed;

as to any goods being the subject of an existing patent, privilege or copyright;

as to the degree of fineness of gold and silver goods:

and the use of any figure, word or mark which, according to the custom of the trade, is commonly taken to be an indication of any of the above mat-Interpreta-

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Merchandise Marks ters, shall be deemed to be a trade description within the meaning of this Act;

"false trade description" means a trade description which is false in a material respect as regards the goods to which it is applied, and includes every alteration of a trade description, whether by way of addition, effacement or otherwise, where that alteration makes the description false in a material respect, and the fact that a trade description is a trade mark or part of a trade mark shall not pre-vent such trade description being a false trade de-scription within the meaning of this Act; a trade description which denotes or implies that there are contained in any goods to which it is applied more yards, feet or inches than there are contained therein standard yards, standard feet or standard inches, or more hundredweights, pounds or ounces than there are standard hundredweights, standard pounds or standard ounces or their equivalent met-ric measurements, is a false trade description;

"goods" means anything which is the subject of trade, manufacture or merchandise;

''person", :'manufacturer, dealer or trader" and

"proprietor" include any body of persons corpo-rate or unincorporate;

"name" includes any abbreviation of a name.