SALES OF WHEAT.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1920, Page 5

SALES OF WHEAT.

JUDGMENT IN DUNEDIN CASEBy Telegraph'.— Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night At the Supreme Court to-day, the Registrar read the judgment of Mr. Justice Sim in the case heard on June 10, in which the Crown sued'for penalties in respect to sales of wheat, the defendants being A. Steven and Co., and William Josiah Love. His Honor said the evidence showed that in the seven transactions which had been traced, the total profit was only £23, and there was no reason to suppose that the remaining three transactions were more profitable. It was clear, therefore, that the defendants did not engage in the transactions for th>s sake of the profit to be derived from them. There did not appear to be any secrecy about the business when the Government Wheat Controller investigated, and a complete disclosure was made to him. The truth seemed to be that the defendant Love thought the other merchants were evading the regulations, and lie rather foolishly determined to disregard them. His Honor thought it would be a suffi-, cient penalty if the defendant company paid the penalty, £ls, in respect of each of ten offences, and if Love paid a nominal penalty of £1 in resp6ct of each of them. In the case of the defendant company, the sum of £485 was remitted in each of the ten cases, and judgment was given for £l5O in all. In the case of ths other defendant £499 was remitted in each of the ten cases, and judgment was given against him for £lO in all.