APPEAL COURT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144083, 30 April 1913, Page 3

APPEAL COURT.

SUGAR. TRUST CASE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 29. In the Appeal Court, in dealing with the conviction under section 5, the conspiracy clause. Sir J. Findlay said that if it was a conspiracy to monopolise by illegal means such a conspiracy was contrary to tiie public interest. The conspiracy might be, for example, to carry out' its object by means of a series or system of /breaches of section 3. He contended that to establish a conviction under section 3 no, proof of conspiracy or agreement was necessary, but under section 5 the additional element of conspiracy was essential, and' that, therefore, the convictions were not upon the same facts. Similarly, a person or firm might abet an offence under sections 3 without being a member of the conspiracy and within the penal provisions, of section 5. He had not concluded his address when the court adjourned till to-morrow.