DISPUTED CHARGES
CLAIM BY RAILWAY DEPART-
MENT FAILS.
Bx Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, June 9. Mr. H. Y. Widdowson, S.M., gave judgment denying the rigid' , tb® Railway Department to claim freight and other charges on goods landed at Lyttelton for Lyttelton consignees, and sent to Christchurch for sorting. The claim was one which the Railway Department made against Forbes and Co., of Lyttelton, for £26 7s. Id. railage, sorting, and storage charges, in respect of 425 bundles of iron landed from the Woodara, and £6 19s. 5d., railage, etc., on 222 bundles of pipes fended from the Kanna. The Magistrate said that individual detention notices were not given by Forbes and Co. in respect to the goods., and they relied on a general notice given to the Department.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 225, 11 June 1923, Page 8
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