COAL VEND CASE.
DELIVERY OE THE JUDGMENT CONTINUED.
SHIPPING PEOPLE BLAMED
Sydney, December 21. The delivery of the judgment in the vend case continued throughout the lay, and was unfinished at its close. Justice Isaac declared the conduct 'f defendants would indicate an intention to combine for the purpose of
arising the prices of coal to a height united only by the possibility of obtaining them. Dealing with the shipling companies, lie said they earned m the excess imposed by tlio_ vend, uul were just as much responsible as the colliery proprietors. Before they combined and an agreement was made, the shipping companies played off one colliery against another. Ihc slipping defendants must be held responsible, even il the detriment to the public. travelled no further than the leclaration of the; excessive prices pronounced by the vend and executed by the shipping companies, hut the detriment proceeded further than this, the companies using the power if combination for additional advantage to themselves.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 10, 22 December 1911, Page 5
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162COAL VEND CASE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 10, 22 December 1911, Page 5
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