COAL VEND TRIAL
PRICES WERE NOT EXCESSIVE. By Telegraph—Preee Association—Copyright. (Received July 12, 9.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 12. The hearing of the case in which the Coal Vend is charged with J being a combination in restraint of trade was continued in the High Court of Australia to-day. Mr Knox, senior counsel fop the defendant colliery proprietors, again monopolised the whole day. He quoted figures to show that the prices charged to consumers in Australia and in other parts of the world where they were not affected by the Vend •were approximately equal, and, therefore, could not be called excessive. • That a rise often to eleven shillings per ton was . not to the detriment of the public was proved by the fact that trade had increased in greater proportion than before. No .witness had stated that trade had been hampered by the prices charged.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7851, 13 July 1911, Page 7
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