SUCCESSFUL CLAIM FOR WORK DONE BY CONTRACTOR

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22808, 1 December 1948, Page 6

SUCCESSFUL CLAIM FOR WORK DONE BY CONTRACTOR

In the Magistrate’s Court yesterday Mr. E. L. Walton. S.M., heard a civil action between Allan Charles Barker, Gisborne, agricultural contractor (Mr. K. A. Woodward) and Richard Henry Jeffcoate, Gisborne, sawmiller (Mr. L. T. Burnard).

The plaintiff claimed £152 for road construction work and log-hauling done In a bush at Wharekopae in respect of which the defendant had timber rights. The plaintiff in evidence stated that he entered into the contract to do the work and was to provide three men and a bull-dozer at a charge of £2 5s per bull-dozer hour. The defendant alleged that the arrangement was for the logs to be hauled out of the bush at the rate of not more than 9s per hundred board feet and the defendant paid into court £6O in full settlement of the plaintiff’s claim.

Evidence in support of the arrangements and the work done was given by the plaintiff’s employee, Garnett William Whiteman, and a contractor William Cooper. Edwin Charles Glanville, Gisborne, surveyor, gave evidence of inspecting the work and that the roading done was suitable for the job.

Evidence against the claim was given by the defendant and bv George Archie Collinson.

After hearing the evidence the magistrate stated that he considered that the plaintiff’s story of the arrangements was the correct one and he gave judgment for the plaintiff , for the full amount claimed £152, plus court costs and witnesses’ expenses. £l9 9s.