A BIG CLAIM.

Wairarapa Age, 15 March 1922, Page 5

A BIG CLAIM.

ON WOOL AND SKINS CONTRACT Melbourne, March 13. —In tire High Court the Chief Justice delivered his reserved judgment in the fellmongers’ claim against the Commonwealth Government. He found that there was no contract between the parties, and there had been no compulsory acquisition of skins and wool by the Commonwealth. The Court granted the plaintiff firms six months in which to amend their particulars of claim. The question of costs was reserved, but in the event of no further application being made, cost s are to, go to the Commonwealth. (The Australian fellmongers, as represented by certain firms, asked for participation in the profits in connection with the overseas sales of skins and wool during the seasons 1918, 1919, and 1920, such sales having been made through the Central Wool Committee. The plaintiffs claimed that they were entitled to half the profits above the fixed price at which the skins and wool were sold to the British Government. The defendants, the Commonwealth Government and the Central Wool Committee, contended that they were entitled to a fixed price only. The amount involved was between £3,000,000 and £4,000,000). MONEY ADDED TO “BAWRA” ASSETS. Melbourne, March 14.—Mr Justice Higgins having announced the High Court’s decision in the wool and ekins suit, the sum of £35,000, which was set aside in case the skin suppliers received the verdict, will now probably revert to “Bawra” and# become an actual instead of a contingent aseet. The sum was not included in the association’s assets on the formation of “Bawra.”