ALLEGED MONOPOLY.
CROWN' WRITS IBBUED.
DISTRIBUTION OF FLOUR.
INJUNCTION TO BE SOUGHT.
fBT TELEG2APH.— PBES3 ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, Thursday.
Writs have been issued by the Crown against the Crown Milling Company, Dunedin; Fleming and Company low cargill; Woods Bros., Christchurch; the Atlas Roller Mills. Timaru; «nd Distnontors, Ltd., claiming from each the sum of £500 for alleged breach of the Commercial Trusts Act. . The Crown will also apply for an injunction to restrain an alleged breach of the statute. , The allegation is that Distributors, Ltd to which each of the companies named, with other companies, is connected, has Squired a practical monopoly of the supply of flour throughout the greater nart of Nsw Zealand, and that the Monopoly is contrary to the public mterest and therefore a breach of the Act It ft not expected that the cases can be taken in the Supreme Court till August.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18710, 16 May 1924, Page 10
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