SHORT-LIVED BUT PROFITABLE

Evening Star, Issue 24481, 16 April 1943, Page 6

SHORT-LIVED BUT PROFITABLE

CLUB CLEARS £146 IN TEN DAYS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 15. The America Club, which was opened in the Pharmacy Hall, Cambridge Terrace, in May last year, had a short life, but a profitable one. It functioned for only 10 days before the door was closed to the occupiers iby the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand for alleged infringement of the liquor laws, and in that period a clear profit of £146 was made. In the Supreme Court a claim for damages based, on an allegation of wrongful termination of tenancy has resulted in a nonsuit. The plaintiff was John Sidney Crawford, described as a manager, of Wellington, and said by the sole witness in support of the claim" to-have arrived > in New Zealand from South Africa in March, 1942. Crawford, who did not appear to give evidence, was represented by Mr R. E. Harding, with him Mr F. B. Anyon. The case was heard by Mr Justice Northcroft. A loss of £250 in furnishing and equipping the club was claimed by Crawford as special .damages and £750 as profits he would have made in a six months* tenancy. He estimated an expected weekly profit of £IOO.