TRADER FINED £IOO
PROFITEERING CHARGE (PA) DANNEVIRKE, April 21. A case was concluded in the Magistrate’s Court before Mr. A. Coleman, S M in which Shurky ' Alexander, trading as “Money’s Worth,” was charged on four informations of offerin .j to sell goods to an inspector under the Price Tribunal at prices deemed unreasonably high. On one charge the defendants profit was 78 1-3 per cent, whereas the approved profit allowed by the tribunal was 47 to 474 per cent. On the second charge the defendant s profit was 73.83 per cent, as against the tribunal’s approved profit of 42* per cent. . The defendant was convicted on each of these charges and fined the minimum of £SO on each, with costs on both totalling £25 8s 4d. The other two charges were withdrawn, counsel for the department stating that it did not desire to persecute the defendant now that it had been brought before the public that profiteering would not be permitted.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21385, 21 April 1944, Page 2
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