WOOL PROFITS CLAIM.
♦ OVER £3,000,000 INVOLVED. AUSTRALIAN FELLMONSERS. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY. Nov. 80. Hearing has commenced in the High Court of a case in which Australian fell- i mongers, as represented by certain firms, are asking for participation in profits in connection with overseas sales of wool during the seasons 1918-19-20, such sales having been made through the Central Wool Committee. The defendants are 7 the Commonwealth Government and Central Wool Committee. The plaintiffs claim that they entitled to half profits above the fixed price at which skin wool was sold to the British Government. The defendants contend that they were entitled to the fixed price only. The amount involved is between £■3,000,000 and £4,000,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17935, 1 December 1921, Page 7
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116WOOL PROFITS CLAIM. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17935, 1 December 1921, Page 7
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