MINING CLAIM AT WESTPORT
Case May Continue After Easter
(Ifew Zealand Press Association) WESTPORT, April 15. The Supreme Court session at Oiristchurch after Easter may be postponed to allow the completion of the hearing of the mining claim at Westport which entered its third week today. This afternoon Mr Justice Adams said that it was his wish to resume the case after Easter and to carry on at Westport until its conclusion. He explained that such a step would involve an adjournment of the Supreme Court sessions at Christchurch but he would prefer that step to an adjournment of the present case for a month. However, his Honour said, he would confer with counsel and then possibly he would be in a position to make a statement about the future hearing of the claim. T. Moynihan and W. J. Slee are seeking £65,000 damages from the Crown for the cancellation of the lease of a coal mine at Stockton and there is a counter-claim of £11,200 for alleged damages to Crown property from the mining operations. Today, Ernest William Pearson, a mining engineer of Westport, and director of the now defunct Westport School of Mines for some years, gave technical evidence about the mine in dispute.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28254, 16 April 1957, Page 7
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