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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 44, 16 November 1920, Page 10

An action lias been instituted in the High Court of Australia, on behalf of John Hook and Company, meat exporters, and T. M'Williams, Ltd., fcllmongcrs, of Sydney, on behalf of themselves and all other vendors or suppliers of skin wool in tho Commonwealth, against tho Commonwealth Government, the Central Wool Committee, tho Prime Minister, and all members of tho Central Wool Committee, individually, claiming titlo to a share proportionately to tho wool contributed by them in all the moneys to be ■ distributed by the Central Wool Committee, whether receivers from tho British Government or otherwise, and over tho whole period covered by tho regulations; also an injunction against anv distribution of money on any other basis. The claims aro stated to involve, on tho first dividend nlone. somo .£50,000, tau\ on all the dividends together a sum approaching .£1,000,000. The action, whicli will hardly bo reached by tho H ieli cCourt this year, will challenge the decision of tho Central Wool Committee that onlv pastoialists and farmers aro to participate in the dividends paid by the British Government in respect of the clips of 1918-19 and 1918-20.