ALLEGED TRUST
CHARGES AGAINST FLOUR
MILLERS
(United Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, July 16.
The Lyttelton 'times stales that the action which is being brought by the Crown against several flourmilling companies, claiming from each the sum of £SOO for alleged breach of the Commercial Trusts Act, will he heard at the sitting of the Supreme Court at Dunedin next month. Mr Adams, Crown Prosecutor at Dunedin, will have charge of the Crown’s case. Messrs M. Myers, K.C., C. P. Skerrett, K.C. (Wellington) and S. Solomon, K.C. (Dunedin) will appear as counsel for the defendants. The firms against whom the Crown are issuing writs are :Crown Milling Company, Dunedin; Fleming and Co., Invercargill; Wood Bros., Christchurch ; Atlas Roller Mills, Timarii; and Distributors, Ltd. The Crown will also apply for an injunction to restrain the alleged breach of the statute. The allegation is that Distributors, Ltd., to which each of the companies is connected, has acquired a partial monopoly of the supply of (lour throughout, the greater part of New Zealand, and that the monopoly is contrary to the public interest, and therefore a breach’ of the Act.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 18 July 1924, Page 5
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185ALLEGED TRUST Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 18 July 1924, Page 5
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