DISPUTE OVER MINES

Evening Star, Issue 18729, 3 September 1924, Page 5

DISPUTE OVER MINES

MISREPRESENTATION ALLEGES.

[Pee United Press Association.]

AUCKLAND, September 3. After being before the Supreme Court for four days, the action between two groups of the Hikurangi coal miners was adjourned by Mr Justice Reed for the purpose of a practical test of the area in dispute. In concluding the argument of the day, His Honor remarked that there seemed to be perjury on on© side or the other. ■ The plaintiffs, John MTntyre, Thomas Morley Cook, Andrew Edsie Wilson, and Joseph Neil, proceeded against Alfred James Doei and Charles John Doel, seek* ing recission of an agreement for the purchase of th© coal mine at Hikurangi on the ground of alleged fraudulent misrepresentation; alternatively the amount of the purchase price, £450, was sought as damages Defendants denied that plaintiffs ’were induced to purchase by their representations. They submitted also that the price included not only the rights of lease, but tramway , skips and tho plant on the land. His Honor adjourned the case for the parties to unmask four holes, one by the plaintiffs and three by tho defendants, an independent person (to ho appointed by the parties) to report to tho court. His Honor will hear argument at Wanganui about September 22.