SKIN AND WOOL CASE
DECISION OF PRIVY COUNCIL. APPELLANTS’ CLAIM REFUSED. (Press f ssooirtion—By Telegraph— Copyngri.. MELBOURNE, March 3. (Received March 3, at 8 p.m.) Sir John Higgins, chairman of the Central Wool Committee, has received advice from London that the Privy Council has dismissed with costs the application of Bardsley. The refusal means that the decision of the Queensland Full Court staying all further proceedings in this action stands, and this particular phase of the skin and wool litigation is'at an •nd. Bardsley is one of the claimants in ■what is known as the “skin and wool case,” which extends back over the last three vcars. The plaintiffs claimed £1,000,000 from the Federal Government, the Central Wool Committee, and Bawrn., with Sir John Higgins as the person lidding the moneys in trust. They sought the ri'dit to participate in the profits arising out of the Imperial Government’s wool realisation scheme during the last two years of the operation of the scheme.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20039, 4 March 1927, Page 10
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