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EXCESSIVE PRICE.

AUCKLAND FIRM FINED. (Per Press Association). AUCKLAND. October 4. On two summons charges of selling goods at a. price- higher than that fixed under the. Price Stabilisation Emergency .Regulations, IHlatliorne Hart-ridge and Company, Ltd., was fined by the Magistrate (Mr A. M. Mo-rlnnd), in the Magistrate’s Court, £2 and ordered to- pay costs on one charge, and erdtered to pay costs on the other. Mr V. R. Meredith, prosecuting, said the. defendants were leather and grindery merchants and in April, last they sold 99 yards of backing cloth at Is 9£d a. yard instead of Is 4d a yard, without the consent of the Price Tribunal. The second case concerned the sale of 123 yards of combhied lining at 2s Id a yard instead of Is 6d a yard. Mr Meredith said the maximum penalty provided was three months imprisonment, or a fine of £loo'. Defending counsel, Mr 'deal, said there was no question of profiteering. The defendants had since been authorised to ch/arge Is 9Jd and 2s 2d respectively.

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 308, 5 October 1940, Page 3

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EXCESSIVE PRICE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 308, 5 October 1940, Page 3

EXCESSIVE PRICE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 308, 5 October 1940, Page 3

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