MAGISTRATES COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25607, 23 September 1948, Page 3

MAGISTRATES COURT

WEDNESDAY (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) PRICE CONTROL BREACHES Drayton Jones, Ltd., pieaded guilty to two charges of selling sports trousers at £3 Os 9d and £2 18s 6d when a notice prohibiting the sale of these goods was in force. The Magistrate imposed a fine of 20s on each charge and ordered defendants to pay £2 2s solicitor’s fee. For failing to put a price-ticket on vegetables showing the price a pound, Irwin John Fowler was fined 20s and ordered to pay solicitor’s fee, £2 2s.

Jim Joe Lee (Mr R. A. Young) was convicted and ordered to pay costs for making a charge for service not in conformity with the approval of the Price Tribunal.

Mr W. K. L. Dougall, who appeared for the Director of Price Control, said Lee had charged 3s £or laundering a shirt when the correct charge was 2s 6d.

Stanley and Eliza Maffey, jointly charged with failing to .display a price order and with failing to price-ticket vegetables, were fined 10s on each charge and ordered to pay solicitor’s fee, £2 2s. For tailing to price-ticket vegetables, Noel Harold Ryde was fined 20s and ordered to pay £2 2s fee. “CASES OF OMISSION” “These appear to have been cases of omission rather than commission,” said the Magistrate, when Alexander Forbes Thomson and Junior Models, Ltd. (both represented by Mr E. B. E, Taylor), were convicted on charges of selling goods while a notice prohibiting their sale was still in force, and when the Price Tribunal had not made a price order for

Prosecuting for the Price Tribunal, Mr Dougall said that the sales had first been investigated after Thomson had sold some dress material to the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-op. It was found that Thomson had made the sale without the approval of the department, and that Junior Models, Ltd., which sold the material to Thomson, had done likewise.

Mr Taylor said the sales were made under a misunderstanding, both defendants being under the impression that they were, entitled to make the sales under the “automatic list” governing the profits allowed on wholesale materials

Thomson was fined £5 for selling 3610 furs at £3796 to Pattison, Ede and Company, Ltd., and £2 for selling 702 yards of material to Ideal Garments, Ltd., both sales being contrary to the Price Control Regulations. He pleaded guilty to both these charges On two similar charges, to which he pleaded not guilty, he was convicted and discharged. Junior Models Ltd., was convicted on two charges of selling clothing material contrary to the Price Control Regulations, to which pleas of not guilty were entered. The company was fined 30s on each charge. • WANDERING CATTLE On two charges of allowing cattle to wander, John William Baxter (Mr A. H. Cavell) was convicted and ordered to pay costs.