S.M. COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 180, 30 July 1913, Page 6

S.M. COURT.

(Before Mr C. C. Kettle. S.M.I A DOCTOR'S CLAIM. After hearing further legal «J?™ c ? yesterday afternoon in the ease I ir. »■ MacDiarmid v. the Taupiri Cnal Mines, ""j a claim for £1 for sen*■*«« » B *SLi2 Workers' Compensation -Vt. Hl* WOBW intimated that he would re-errc bis uecibiuu, ENGAGING A CLERK. _ A sum of £5 was claimed as rtaniasM W Walter A. Knaggs. a clerk, against JOM Endcan. trading as the Oceanic *» B VJE pany. Mr .7. A. Beaie appeared lor the Pijf tilT. and Mr C. K. Matthews for the OWgj dant. The plaintiff stated that on '™*_\\ last he saw an advertisement in wliii-n ivOceanic Fish Company invitd ;'P! ll,fa " 0 ?! for the position of clerk at t. r - r *?',___. Nelson Street, the wages lutui* t- "«/ ""J week. He went round the same 'lay. ■> after some conversation, the __ A. J. Kobson, engaged him. and tnV n ™ ™ start on June 27. Two fln.vs l*t^ UeggJ letcr (produced) telling him that '■»•, P«"™s had been flUed by someone else -a ' n ™C* man." He had given up a J"I. « MgJJ for the Gas Company, anrt it -. :i- a iotuu* before he again found empl<\s••iieM. . Mr Dobson (called for the ilefcce Ml" that he did not engage.Knacgs "\ '"'*.,.«. merely told him to call rouinl • , - i, '"', n f ince he had gone another man. tin o n j.«jimM whom he was hoping to liii.l to fIU -J vacancy, came in and was w«u«. '". ._* examination be admitted that lie »«*2°?s a notice on the office wlmlow taftrißTO applicants that the place was •«••<»- ~. could not remember the name of «* cant, except Knaggs, to wbom be hadM«g ten. Tbe successful appuia'.;t «.i* »« ' fact a "cheaper man than ivnaags. « wis engaged £t £2 10/. By the r :. press-on ha meant a less capable man. His Worship said tbar there w*« a lirwj conflict of evidence, and he ,<w.i tojJM documents produced. The I etter Ir™ *? ° rhrf to Knaggs, and the form" - r "''••"'„*:!, he was looking for one ; i ' ■ \ '.';, "JL. the very strongest corn.:,. ..-■•>•• e• rwh contention that he was .-. ■ • ■ I '■' •"?• which had not been deem. •! •>•' '"*-'' -.", ,- ease of other applicants • u-nta ■» flattering terms, which police! strongly » tbe msumption that the writer *?*,*&£ to l*ek oot ol his agreement. .lucigmew jhwM bfttotiltejtalntia for £J and colt* j.