COMPANY FINED.
PRICE REGULATIONS BROKEN. THE SALE OF SOLDER . . (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, This Day. •Convictions were entered against Stewart Hardware and Tools, Ltd., on charges of, breaches of the Price Stabilisation Emergency Regulations by the Magistrate (Mr Lnxford). , The Company was fined £lO on one charge relating to the sale of solder, to which it pleaded not guilty. ...The firm raised the point that the soldet sold at September 1, 1039, at 2s 6d, contained, impurities not- present 1 in that subsequently sold at 3s, but the Magistrate ruled that this was lrrevalent, it being abundantly clear that the firm was willing to sell'so-50 solder at 2s 6d on the date mentioned, which was all the Court required .to prove. The other offence, which was admitted, related to- the sale of a wrench.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 18, 1 November 1940, Page 6
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