PROFITEERING CASES.
IMPORTANT TRIALS IN PROSPECT. The most interesting cases under ■ tho anti-profitecrim; legislation of last session that have yet como before,, fhe Courts will be heard in Christchurch. on Monday next. These cases will have to decide tho voxeol question of ..whether profit is to be assessed, whon calculations are being made for the purpose of discovering whether profit is unduly largo ov not, on the invoice cost of tho goods to tho seller, or on the so-called replacement value. It is understood that Mr. C. P. Skerrett, K.C., Sir John Findlay, K.C., and Mr. M. Myers, all of Wellington, have been engaged for the defence. Mr. W. C; Macgregor, Crown Solicitor nt Dunedin, has been, retained for tho Crown. An interesting Dunedin case is to be heard to-day. This' case has to do with the sale of wheat. It !s alleged that a dealer sold 6ome inferior, wheat for fowl feed, and that ho charged for it mora than '.he maximum price allowed for milling wheat.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 215, 9 June 1920, Page 7
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168PROFITEERING CASES. Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 215, 9 June 1920, Page 7
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