MAN SENT TO PRISON
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Trading In Luccrne Hay Above Fixed Prices ' o firm also fined £7000
: By Telegrapl
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Received wednesday, 8.45 p.m. MELBOURNE, Jan. .15. For trading' in lneerne hay above the fixed prices (loldsbrough Moft and Company Limited were fined £7000 in the City . Court today. William Eric Hocking, partner in tlie firni of FaL low v Products Agency, was ordered to serve seven days of a three months' prison sentence. Recording the convietions the magistrate said it appeared that the real profiteers in the ease were the growers of lucerne hay and that neither of the defendants bought the goods for the purpose of making exeess. profits. Goldsbrough Mort - was fined £1000 on eaeh of seven charges.' Hoeking xvas sentenced to three months' imprisonment on each of four charges, the sentenees to be eonciirrent and defendant to be released on a g'ood behaviour bond after serving seven days. Th'e defence was that the prices order under which the charges weve laid was invalid because if did not el early define wholesale trading. !
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 January 1947, Page 5
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178MAN SENT TO PRISON Chronicle (Levin), 16 January 1947, Page 5
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