SALE OF WHEAT
POINT OF LAW RAISED RESTRICTION ON GROWERS mr McDougall’S claim (From Our Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, October 26. That the Government is committing a breach of the law by preventing growers from selling wheat to the free millers is the contention of. Mr D. McDougall, who bases his claim on a clause in the Board of Trade Act 1919. Mr McDougall stated to-day that he had been told by two solicitors that the restriction on the sale of wheat was a breach of the law under that Act. The clause in question states: “Every person commits an offence who being in possession of goods for mercantile purposes destroys or hoards or refuses to sell such goods or to make them available for sale if such destruction or hoarding and refusal raises or tends to raise the cost of other similar goods to the public.” The Reform Government had made that law, Mr McDougall said, and now members of the same Government were preventing wheat growers from keeping it. _____
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Southland Times, Issue 22157, 27 October 1933, Page 8
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