ALLEGED FLOUR COMBINE.
EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENCE. _ Dunedin. Nov. 3. At the hearing of the flour-milling case evidence was given for the defence. Robert Kay Ireland, director of the Oamaru Company, recounted the vagaries of business after 1922, when the Minister announced that there would be no control next year. The Government then practically gave the miliars all the warrants asked for, and certain millers over-brought, endeavouring to secure extra trade by cutting his company and selling at spread delivery up till February. 1923, at prices down to £l6. They lost £603 on Wheat sold in Otago and Southland and £1557 on wheat shipped. The price paid for the former' after the formation of Distributors Ltd. was slightly higher than under controlDuring the existence of Distributors Ltd. his company marketed and sold all the flour gristed.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 277, 3 November 1924, Page 6
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136ALLEGED FLOUR COMBINE. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 277, 3 November 1924, Page 6
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