FORCED EXPORTS

Grey River Argus, 13 June 1935, Page 2

FORCED EXPORTS

AUSTRALIAN LAW. WILL IT STAND? (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) SYDNEY, June 11. The High Court of Australia has given a decision of vital importance affecting the marketing legislation of Australia, by holding, in effect, that the Commonwealth is not bound by Section 92 of the Commonwealth Con stitution providing for free trade between the States. It was indicated the judgment was treated as urgent, so that it could be tested before the Privy Council.

The legislation whereto the judgment referred was the Common wealth Dried Emits Act 1928/35, and the points at issue was whether the Com monwealth had power to require a merchant to market a portion of his dried fruits output overseas, when he desired to place it on the Aus 1 tralian market. The Court unanimously disallowed a claim by Frederick James, fruit mer chant, of Adelaide, that the Dried Fruits Act was beyond the powers of the Federal Parliament.