MARKETING LEGISLATION.
DRIED FRUITS OUTPUT. VERY IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. DECISION IN AUSTRALIA. United Press /issn. —Eire. Tel. Copyright SYDNEY, June il. The High Court of Australia has given a decision of vital importance which affects the marketing legislation of Hie Commonwealth, by holding in effect that the latter is not bound by Section 92 of tlie Commonwealth Constitution, which provides for free trade between the States. it was indicated that the judgment was treated as urgent so that it could lie tested before the Privy Council. The legislation lo which tlie judgment referred was the Commonwealth Dried Fruits Act, 1928-35, and the point at issue was whether the Commonwealth had power to require a merchant to market overseas a portion of ids dried fruit output, when he desired to place it on the Australian market.
The Court unanimously disallowed the claim by Frederick James, fruit merchant, of Adelaide, that the Dried Fruits Act was beyond the powers of the Federal ParllanmU
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Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19600, 12 June 1935, Page 7
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