ANTITRUST ACT.
0 „ PROSECUTIONS. AGAINST COAL VEND AND SHIPPING FIRMS. Br Telei:raDU-Frt!!3 Aesociation-Oooyrielit (Roc. May 26, 10.35 p.m.) e ~. Melbourne, May 26. p Writs ngainst certain coal and sbip- -] ping' companies, charging them' with n breaches of tho Australian Industries i. Act, liave been issued. 0 The writs are threo in number. Tho .. first is against tho Coal Vend and Sliipr ping Combine, and tho firms forming 1 them, for offences against the Anti- ( Trust Act in connection with their cons trol of interests in tho trade in coal, u Tho second is against the Coal Vend s and tho Union Steam Ship Company of r Now Zealand in connection with tho joint control of the coal trado between Nowcastlo, New Zealand, and Tasmania, and in connection witli shipping between New Zealand and Tasmania. Tho third writ is against tho Coal Vend in r connection with persons at London and . elsewhere and their control of the fori eign coal trado. Tho suits aro brought in tho High Court. Tbo writs aro returnable in from 14 to 28 days. Messrs. . Huddart, * Parker, and Company are among tho j. defendants in the first writ.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 827, 27 May 1910, Page 7
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192ANTITRUST ACT. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 827, 27 May 1910, Page 7
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