ALLEGED BREACH OF CONTRACT
KETCH’S VOYAGE TO NEW ZEALAND JURY REJECTS £4BB CLAIM (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 26. A jury in the Supreme Court at Wellington today found there had beeq no repudiation of a contract between Richard Keith Smith, owner of the ketch Naitamba, and John Reginald Dobson, a radio producer and announcer and a former member of the crew, before the ketch left Los Angeles last year for New Zealand. The plaintiff claimed £4BB 12s 7d from Smith for alleged breach of contract.
Mr Justice Cooke entered judgment for the defendant, with leave to apply for costs. Mr R. Hardie Boys, with him Mr M. Hardie Boys, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr G. C. Kent for the defendant.
The case, which lasted two days, concerned the plaintiff’s allegation that Smith had ordered him and another person off the vessel and that he had threatened to throw their gear overboard, thereby breaking the contract, after an argument about the state of the ketch. The plaintiff had to return to New Zealand by passenger ship.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27669, 27 May 1955, Page 9
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