THE SUGAR TRUST.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5967, 7 August 1912, Page 3

THE SUGAR TRUST.

PtROOUCTION OF BOOKS ORDSJ&BD WELMMGTON, August 5. The Chief Justice gave judtrment today on the interlocutory motions in connection -with the cases under the Commercial Tru&ts Act, in which the Colonial Sugar and ftafiniiv,r Company and three , loadingi Wellington provision merchants were charged with breaches of the Act. The two matters jbeforo the Court were a summons for further " discovery " and a motion for the production of documents. The Chief Justice (Sir R. Stouto ordered the production of all documents discovered in the affidavit made by H. A. Gold on behalf of the Merchants' Association of New 'Zealand, but not produced for inspection, including the minute book of the Association 1 ;, also letters from J. H. Cock and Co. to the Merchants' Association of New Zealand, dated January 3, 1011, and all letters produced (parts of which have been covered up). With respect to the parts so covered up, all lejttors refused by Gold on the ground of irrelevancy must !; produced. As to the minutes of the Wellington! Merchants' Association, they did not seem to be in possession of the defendants, nor in Gold's possession, as an agent of the defendants, and therefore should not be ordered to bo produced. Mr Trendwell (for the Sugar Company) mentionixl that an appeal to the Full Court will probably be hxl_'..!.