TWO CHINESE FINED
VEGETABLES SOLD ABOVE ORDER PRICE Auckland, Oct. 13. The Court would have to inflict a penalty whose effect would be implicit obedience of the price orders, said Mr Levien, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Auckland, when B. S. Chong, a Chinese, pleaded guilty to selling two pounds of potatoes for 7d, at a time when the order fixed the price at 2d a pound. It was necessary to impose a penalty’ that would make it not worthwhile for anybody’ intending to sidestep the regulaFining Chong £2O. Mr Levien said the penalty might seem out of proportion to the price of the commodity, but when taken over weeks of such selling, it was not. The fine was only one-fifth of the maximum penalty, and iL was Likely that in future it would increase till it reached the maximum of £IOO. Fong Kee, another Chinese.' was charged with having sold to an inspector carrots, parsnips, and potatoes at prices in excess of the order at the time. He was fined £2O in respect of the sale of the potatoes, and £lO for the sale of the carrots.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 14 October 1942, Page 4
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