SHIPMENT OF CHAFF.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144146, 16 July 1913, Page 7

SHIPMENT OF CHAFF.

AND MERCHANTS’ CIRCULAR. PIE PRESS ASSOCIATION. GISBORNE, July 16. Giving judgment for plaintiff - for £l4O in tho case Stephen Liddell v. Oorry and Co., Blenheim, a claim for £l6l refund on a shipment of chaff, alleged nst to be according to sample, Mr. n&ranoe, S.M., held that tho trade circular issued by produce merchants and exporters in Marlborough, Canterbury, Otago and Southland, upon which plaintiff relied, was not confirmed in practice among merchants at this port and did not bind plaintiff. It was m direct breach of tho Statute against monopolies and therefore unlawful if its effect was to govern tho prices of commodities such as chaff. Tho circular sot out that produce was to bo -taken delivery of at the port of shipment.