SALE OF SODA ASH.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 283, 28 November 1919, Page 5

SALE OF SODA ASH.

A CLAIM FOR £320. A civil action, the Oversea Sales ;ency Ltd., of Auckland, v. James Neil, d., manufacturing chemists, Dunedin, claim for £320 in respect of a ship;nt of soda ash, was part heard by r. Justice Cooper at the Supreme Court -day. Dr. Bamford appeared for the aintifls, and Mr. Adams, of Dunedin, r the defendant*. The plaintiffs allege that in July, 191S, a defendants bought from them 20 tons soda ash. that the ash was shipped om San Francisco and arrived at Wellgton the following December, being forwards transhipped to Dunedin. The fendants, they asserted, wrongfully resed to accept the ash and pay for it, iving purported to cancel the order ! .'o months before. The ash was re-sold! a loss of £314, which sum, with some) Iditions, the plaintiffs claimed. The defence denies that the ash actu-1 ly shipped was the ash ordered, orl iat it was in accordance with the ■ntract, in quality or otherwise. It! so asserts that the ash was not shipped! ithin contract time, or within aj asonable time, that the name of ie vessel was not disclosed as soon as I nown, and that the shipping document* ere not forwarded within a proper and! :asonable time, or at all. i Evidence was given by Ernest James rmstrong, the plaintiffs' manager at uckland. The ease is proceeding.