COAL VEND PROSECUTIONS
OPENING ADDRESS. (By Electric Telega aph — Copynsrut.) (Red 9.50 p.m.) ' ' SYDNEY, April 19. Mr Wise concluded his opening address, and mentioned specific instances when public bodip.; <n ether States were clamouring for coil, the mines were not worked to their full capacity. At the lowest possible estimate, the increased pro tits of the vend since 1905 were £600,000 upon inter-State trade- only. The Crown submitted that the greater parts of this increase was illegitimate, and due to combination. Where there- was no competition buyers •-•. -re at :he mercy of the Vend who charge -1 extravagant prices. They sold the same coal on the same conditions, *c different prices for different pats of -Australia.
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Grey River Argus, 20 April 1911, Page 6
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