FLOUR MONOPOLY ALLEGED.
WRITS ISSUED BY CROWN. INJUNCTION TO RESTRAIN. <By Telegraph. — Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Thursday. Writs have heen issued by the Crown against the Crown Milling Company, Dunedin; Fleming and Company. Invercargill; Woods Bros., Christchurch the Atlas Roller Mills. Timaru: and Distributors, Ltd., claiming from each the sum of £..00 for alleged breach of the Commercial Trusts Act. The Crown will also apply for an injunction to restrain an alleged breach of the statute. The allegation is that Distributors, Ltd.. to which each of the companies named, with other companies, is connected, has acquired a practical monopoly of the supply of flour throughout the greater part of New Zealand, and that the monopoly is contrary to the public interest, and therefore a breach of the Act. It is not expected that the cases can be taken in the Supreme Court till August.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 115, 16 May 1924, Page 8
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