EMPTY BOTTLES

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3271, 25 February 1937, Page 6

EMPTY BOTTLES

RETURN TO BREWERS WELLINGTON COURT’S ORDTR Injunctions restraining certain bottle dealers from refusing to return to the brewing and bottling companies or their agents at the market rates the bottles issued by the brewers and bottlers, were granted by the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) in a reserved judgment delivered in the Supreme Court at Wellington.

Broadly, his Honour held that bottles bearing the imprint of the companies which issued them belonged to those companies, and, in the case before the Court, were returnable on demand, provided the companies paid the ruling market reward for their care and collection by the bottle dealers.

The case was hearfl on four days in the Supreme Court, and its complexity was reflected by the length of his Honour’s judgment, which filled . thirty \ typewritten pages. There were four separate actions, but the question at issue in them were substantially the same. New Zealand Breweries, Ltd., proceeded against MoKendrick Bros., Ltd., and against Agnes Callingham; and I. Mcliraith and Co. Ltd., and the Tui Bottling Co. Ltd., each proceeded against Agnes Callingham.