SLAVE-GROWN COCOA. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sia,—In your
issue of July 30th you publish a list of manu- facturers who have abandoned the use of slave-grown cocoa, but this surely conveys a wrong impression, since it omits the names of such as ourselves who have never used it in their cocoa.
It would be more interesting still to have the list of those foreigners who do use it in the manufacture of the thousands of tons of cocoa annually imported into this country, and sold under a variety of names and brands of people who are well known neither to be makers nor competent to give a personal guarantee of purity or freedom from the taint of slavery. If you probe the matter, you will find that the British public are probably buying and consuming more slave-grown cocoa now than they did before Messrs. Cadbury and others took action to get production under slavish conditions abolished.—I am, Sir, &c., G. MATruzsox (Director), For Clarke, Nicholls, and Coombs, Limited. Victoria Park, London, N.E.
[We have also been requested to add to the list of cocoa manu- facturers who make no use of "slave-grown" cocoa the names of Messrs. James Pascall, Messrs. Batger and Co., and Messrs. James Keiller and Son.—ED. Spectator.]
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