ANTI-PROFITEERING ACT.
FIRST PROSECETIOX
The first information under the new Board oT Trade Anti-ProlUeer-ing Act .has been laid against Bertm ■Smith,, grocer, of Courtenay Place. Wellington (says last night’s Post';. The in forma (ion alleges that he sold to Hazel Edith Carroll, a visitor from Auckland, two bottles of A tellurs food at air unreasonably high price, 3s (id per bottle.
The ease was mentioned at -the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, and, to judge by the remarks made hv counsel, Mr J. Prendeville of the Crown Law Oflice, lor the. prosecution, and Mr A. M. Salck, for the defendant, the matter will in? keenly contested. Mr Salck stated that he had been instructed by the defendant to engage I lie foremost cotinsel in Wellington, and applied for a fortnight’s adjournment, in order that the defence might he prepared. Mr Prendeville opposed so long an adjournment, hut, in view of the fact that the defendant is liable to a heavy penalty, Air E. Page, S.M., agreed to the ease being adjourned till the 25th instant.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2102, 13 March 1920, Page 2
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174ANTI-PROFITEERING ACT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2102, 13 March 1920, Page 2
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