HOP-GROWERS FAILURE TO REDUCE ACREAGE
At Mailing, Kent, Alfred' Smythe White, hop-grower and farmer, of Yalding, recently appeared _in answer to four summonses charging him with failing to reduce his hop acreage to onehalf of his acreage in June, 1914. The prosecution stated that according to the defendant's own figures he had last August GO acres in excess of 50 per cent, of his 1914 acreage. Sir. Wild, K.C., for the defence, explained that his client had entered into an agreement for the sale of l:is hops to a firm of brewers. Tinder that agreement he was compelled to keep his growth up to within 15 acres of liis 1914 acreage. Counsel questioned the Government's right to compel tho defendant to break the agreement with the brewers unless they put it in plain terms, which they did not do. The defendant was fined £50 on each of the four summonses. The Magistrates also sentenced liini to tvo months' imprisonment in the second division and ordered the defendant to pay 25 guineas costs, and required tto forfeiture of tho hops in respect of, which the offences had been?committed.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 89, 8 January 1918, Page 9
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187HOP-GROWERS FAILURE TO REDUCE ACREAGE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 89, 8 January 1918, Page 9
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