HOTEL FERE VICTIM.
AUCKLAND, April 30. John Home, who was injured at the Metropolitan Hotel fire, died in the hospital to-day.
' Admitting that " a deplorable mistake" had been made by a branch manager, Charles Joseph Clements, a Cheapside cutler, was. at the Mansion House, London, fined £100 and five guineas costs for selling tivo razors, bought wholesale at 45s per dozen, at one guinea each, with 3s 6d for tlio cass. Mr Vickery, prosecuting, said the price represented between 000 and 600 per cent, profit, and the City Profiteering Committee had ordered a 30s refund to the buyer.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9203, 30 April 1920, Page 5
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