EXCESSIVE PRICES
SALE OF LUCERNE HAY HEAVY PENALTIES IMPOSED . MELBOURNE, January 151 For trading in lucerne hay above fixed -prices, Goldsbrough Mort and Co. Ltd. were fined £7,000 in 'the city court to-day. William Eric Hocking, a partner in the firm of Fallow Products Agency, was ordered to serve seven days: of a three - mpnt’hslrt prison sen- ’ tence." Recording the convictions, the f magistrate said it appeared that the real profiteersthe ease were- the prowers of lucerne; hay, and-, that neither of tho defendants bought goods for the purpose of making excess .pr.ofit< f The: Goldsbrough Mort Company was fined £I,OOQ on each-of seveti'charges. Hocking was sentenced: to .three, months’ imprisonment on-each of four charges, the sentences to be oncurrent and the defendant to be released on a good behaviour bond after serving seven days. . . ■ The detfeucewvas that the prices order under which charges ".tvo 'aid was invalid because it did . i-'- vli'v-W define wholesale trading.
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Evening Star, Issue 26001, 16 January 1947, Page 6
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156EXCESSIVE PRICES Evening Star, Issue 26001, 16 January 1947, Page 6
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