DAMAGE TO HIRED CAR.
TAXI-PROPRIETOR'S CLAIM.
DRIVE TO TAKAPUNA RACES.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
WHANGAREI, Monday.
In the Whangarei Magistrate's Court to-day, before Mr. G. H. Morris, S.M., Horace Pair, taxi proprietor,. sued two Chinese, Hap Seng and-Wong Kai, and a white man, Charles Blagrove, for the sum of. £110 for damage .allegedly done to his motor car, and • incidental losses, when defendants drove the car- to Auckland last January to attend the Takapuna races. Mr. R. K. Trimmer, for plaintiff,' Baid ho had hired the car to defendants, who wifihed to go to Auckland, for £7. Benzine and any other charges had to be pftidl out of the £7. On the return the car capsized at To Hana, fl/id considerably , damaged., Voi ilia dcferico Mr. L.. A. Johnson Mid ih'JFC woe a special contract wtefgW 111# defendant driver, Hap Seng, to drive the car on the that he would not lid j-cspwrnbte for any damage. MUr m aji-day hearing the magistrate p'eeei'yed decision. Counsel ie
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 219, 16 September 1930, Page 8
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