EXCESS PRICE FOR LUCERNE HAY
Heavy Penalfies Imposed In Melbourne » MELBOURNE, January 15. For trading in lucerne bay above the fixed price list, Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Ltd., were tmed £7000 in t'he Oity Court to-day. William Eric Hocking, partner in the firra of Faljow Products Agency, was ordered to serve seVen days of a three months' prison sentence. In recording the convictions, -the magistrate said that it appeared^ that. the real profiteers in the case were the growers of lucerne 'hay and that "•either of the defendants brought the goods for the purpose of making' excess profits. Goldsbrough Mort was fined' £1000, >n each of seven charges. Hocking was sentenced to three months' impriSonment on each of four charges. The sentences are to be coneurrent and the defendant is to be re-' leased on a good behaviour bond after serving seven days. The defence was that the Prices Ordei', under which the c'harges were laid, was invalid, because it did not clearly define wholesale trading.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5303, 16 January 1947, Page 5
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166EXCESS PRICE FOR LUCERNE HAY Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5303, 16 January 1947, Page 5
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