ALLEGED PROFITEERING

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 October 1921, Page 7

ALLEGED PROFITEERING

A CHAUGE FAILS

(by telegraph— puf.ss association.) - AUCKLAND, Oct. 14. lhe hearing of a charge against Tonson, Garhck, Ltd., alleging overcharge on a number of mattresses supplied to F. J. Williams, sheep farmer, of "Waipare, concluded in the Police Court today. Ernest P. Carter, officer in charge «f c Auckland Board of Trade, said one of the reasons given for the overcharge was that the clerks, thinking the selling price of the factory docket was the actual cost, added the usual profit. The evidence of the secretary to the company was that a change in the system had been introduced, the mistake occurring during the transition period. Evidence was called to show that the material was supplied at less than replacement value. The Magistrate said he had to decide whether the overcharge was the result of a mistake or a deliberate act. The prosecution, he said, considered the various explanations were so inconsistent that they had reason for suspicions, but taking all the facts into consider tion he was of opinion that the overcharge had arisen over an innocent mistake. The case must therefore fail.