COST OF WEDDING FEAST.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 85, 11 April 1929, Page 3

COST OF WEDDING FEAST.

HUSBAND AND WIFE SUED. COMPROMISE ARRANGED. •By Ic]p;r3rh.—Own Correspondent.) PALMERSTOX Wednesday. A pa-try cook who has not- been paid 101 tlv? delicacies supplied for the wedding breakfast of Mr. and Mrs. ir. I". Hi'"kford. to day sued them and Mrs. I. K. Barker, Mrs. Hickford's lijfther. for £> 9/. Mrs. Stcel. wife of the caterer, stated the account was sent to Mrs. Barker in t1 ,t fir.-t place, but she replied that she was not in a position to pay. She suggested the hill should be forwarded to the bridegroom. He returned the account with a similar statement. Mrs. Barker stated in evidence that she had offered to provide a small v. editing breakfast, but Hickford wanted a large one. She und-?rst<xl that he -was to pay. The majority of the guests were his friend-, a- invitations were not being; -put to many of her friends. (iordon Edmund Hickford said he did not know his credit wo= being pleaded. Mr. Yortt (counsel for Hickford): You had to pay other incidentals, too. In fact, they tried to bundle the whole box of tricks on to you. both their side and your-. Witness: Yes. practically all. "Witness added that he did not know anything about the arrangements for the wedding breakfast, with the exception that he was shown a wedding cake in a window, and was told it was costing £3. Th" Magistrate: I suggest you pav half each. Have you any objection to that ? Hickford undertook to pay for the •ake. and the ca>e was. adjourned for a week to allow the parties to arrive at a settlement.