ALLEGED FLOUR TRUST.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2760, 19 July 1924, Page 2

ALLEGED FLOUR TRUST.

PROSECUTION BY CROWN. WRITS AGAINST FIVE COMPANIES. Christchurch, July 10. The Lyttelton Times states that the action which is being brought by tlie Crown against several flourivalling companies, claiming from each Hie sum of foot) for abeged breach of the Commercial Trusts Act. will he heard a' the next sitting of the Supreme ('min at Dunedin next month. Mr Adams, Crown Prosecutor at Dunedin, will have charge of the Crown'- case ami Mr A. T. Donnelly, of Christchurch, will have charge of the defendants’ case. Several other prominent members ojj the New Zealand Bar will probably also take part. The firms against whom the Crown are issuing writs are: Crown Milling Company, Dunedin; Fleming and Co., Invercargill: Wood Bros., Christchurch: Atlas Roller Mills, Tima rti; and Distributors, Lid. The Crown will also apply for an injunction to restrain the alleged breach of the statute. The allegation is that Distributors Ltd. to which each of the companies is connected, has acquired a practical monopoly of the supply of dour throughout the greater part of New Zealand, and that the monopoly is contrary to the public interest, and therefore a breach of the Act. .Messrs M. Myers, K.C., C. P. Sker.ett, K.C. (Wellington), and S. Solomon, K.C. (Dunedin), will appear as counsel for the defendants. Air A. T. Donnelly, .Crown Prosecutor, at Christchurch, will not appear in the ease.