COURT OF APPEAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1733, 25 April 1913, Page 3

COURT OF APPEAL.

SUGAR CASE PROCEEDING. A further stage of tho sugar case was reached in the Court of' Appeal yesterriny, when the addresses of .counsel lor tho appellants concluded. The hearing has already extended over six days, and will take some time yet. Mr. Justice Williams is presiding at the appeal, and sitting with him are Mr. Justice ilenniston, Mr. Justice Cooper, and -Mr. Justice Chapman. Tho appellants are the Merchants' Association of Now Zealand, Incorporated, a trade protection society, Wellington; tile Colonial Sugar • Refining Company, Ltd., incorporated in Now South Wales, sugar retiiiers and sugar merchants. Auckland; Levin and Co., Ltd., W. M. Bannatyne and Co., Ltd., antl Joseph Nathan and Co., Ltd., nil merchants of Wellington. The respondent is his Ma-, jebty the King. Mr. C. P. Skerrett, K.C., with Mr. T. Young, is appearing for,tho Merchants' Association, and for W. M. 'Bannatyue and Co., Ltd., and Joseph Nathan, and Co., Ltd. Mr. J. H. Hosting, K.C., of Dunedin, with Air. H. I\ Richmond, of Auckland, represents tho Colonial Sugar Kelinijig Company, Ltd., while Mr. Jl, Myers is in the' case as counsel for Levin and Co., Ltd. Tho Attorney-General (the Hon. A. L. Herdman) is appearing for the Crown, and be has with him Sir John i'indlay, K.C., and Mr. H. H. Ostler, of the Crown Law Office. Mr. Myers, who was the last spanker on, behalr of the appellants, completed his address in tho forenoon yesterday. The Attorney-General opened for tho respondent, and was stilt engaged in addressing the Court at .1.3(1 p.m., tvhen the adjournment was taken.