ALLEGED PROFITEERING.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 72, 26 March 1921, Page 3

ALLEGED PROFITEERING.

j THE SURGICAL HOOT CASK ( -The hearing of the c.iarge again't ¥. ■K. Ix-anincx o: having soid a }>air of j boots at a price !£4 0' uli.ci v>-as I unreasonably hiph. ea? coin njcd l>efore j Mr. K. ('. Cutt*n, S.M.. on Thursday I afternoon, when <l>-fendar.t was cro-s----examinwi by Mr. V. It. Meredith, who conducted the prosecution for the Hoard of Trad-- Defendant -talc! tiiat a .ast had been m.idi' from CarrolKs mi-a.-urcrnen - ' after he !.ad been notified of the complaint. He ?ot hf- costs -heels primed in tlicir present form, when several com plaint? about hi- prices for yjrrK'ai boots were noticed him b_v the I , :, s Investigation Tribiinal. ■ . • T.i Mr. Hail >ke'.ton: He liad ?;\en t ■■ I'ri'-es Tribunal all tile information it wanted, and informed the tribunal that he- could no - majic his prices any lower. : To do so would mean that his eiinrical department '.vntiid no? -pay. and '.vir.i'.d have to :>e disrxTiscd with. The further hcurinu of the ca=e \tr? adjourned till Monday week.