Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate will flavour World Fair Trade Day in Masterton on Saturday.
Trade Aid Masterton is inviting everyone to a chocolate party to mark the global celebration of fair trade that will be echoed at Trade Aid stores throughout New Zealand on Saturday.
Trade Aid Masterton manager Brenda Lee said customers will be treated to a chocolate fountain, cake and competitions at the Queen St shop and there also will be several musicians providing in-store entertainment for the day.
"It's a celebration of the win-win aspect of fair trade that highlights the links between New Zealand consumers and the talented producers who make our products in developing countries around the world," she said.
Mrs Lee said the widespread prevalence of slavery and child labour on cocoa farms around the world meant New Zealanders "are not able to presume that the non-fair trade chocolate they buy is a slave-free product".