ALLEGED PROFITEERING.
“THE PUBLIC WILL BE STAGGERED ”
Charges of profiteering were preferred against the following wholesale firms at the B.M. Court, Wellington, ore Wednesday:—Bing, Harria and Co. (three charges), K. Jameson and Co. (two charges), Robert Wilson and Co. (four charges), and Miller and Aheara (one charge). The informations were laid by the Board of Trade in respect ->f alleged t.roiiteering on the rale oi tweeds. ‘ -< Mr Macassey, in asking for. an ad journment for a fortnight, said “that the Board of Trade, after making fui! inquiries, had arrived at the conclusion shat neither the woollen companies oo%'lic tartors 6»4 l*«B piviStesriog; the charge* are ali against warehousemen, sad I think that when all the facts are placed before the Court the public will ce staggered at the profile made by these firms.” The adjournment was graatei ,
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 1 October 1920, Page 2
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137ALLEGED PROFITEERING. Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 1 October 1920, Page 2
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