MILK SUPPLY CONTRACT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 142, 18 June 1929, Page 9

MILK SUPPLY CONTRACT.

QUESTION OF PURITY,

SUPREME COURT ACTION".

The hearing of a claim and counterclaim arising out of a dispute over the purity of milk and cream supplied by a suburban farmer to a Dominion Road dairyman was continued before Mr. •Justice Blair in the Supreme Court to r day. The plaintiff was William Percival Levy, farmer, of Glen Eden (.Mr. Fleming), and the defendant, Raymond C'. Rowlandson, dairyman (Mr. Glaister). Plaintiff claimed £487, including £245 for alleged loss through the termination of an unexpired contract with the defendant. £130, the balance of a loan, and £94 for milk and cream actually supplied to the defendant. The counter-claim totalled £5G(i. consisting of £200 general damages, £281 loss of profits, and £85 extra cost in purchasing supplies elsewhere, when the defendant ceased buying from the plaintiff. An important feature of the case was whether the milk supplied bv the defendant was in accordance with "the standard of purity required in the agreement between the parties. The plaintiff submitted that he had complied with the conditions of "absolutely pure." and defendant contended the milk was not ••tree from taint of feed or herbs." The case is proceeding.