SUPREME COURT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 August 1924, Page 9

SUPREME COURT.

CLAIM AGAINST DRAINAGE BOARD. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION .1 PALMERSTON N., Aug. 13. At the Supreme Court the hearing was commenced of an action in which Oliver Tremain, farmer, Kairanga, is claiming £2300 damages from the Manawatu Drainage Board through the flooding of Ins land. Plaintiff alleged that on his property were two drains vested in the defendant board, which had allegedly failed to keep them properly cleared and cleansed. It was also alleged that the drains were incapable of carrying away the- waters which flowed into them, and as a result of usual and ordinary floods and rainfall plaintiff’s land was flooded in April and August last year, resulting in damage to crops and interference with farming operations. The defendant board denies the vesting of drains in it, but admits "that they have been under its management since April last year. The board also denies having failed to clear the drains, and if plaintiff suffered drainage it was due to several causes, viz. : floods in the Manawatu and Oroua rivers; (2) water flowing back to the drains through the outlet to the river; (3) subsidiary drains on plaintiff’s land; (4) the overflowing of artesian wells on the property; and (5) by plaintiff placing obstructions in drains. The board also says that it was not responsible lor tlie construction of the said drains, and pleads that the acts alleged to have been done were done under the authority of the Land Drainage Act. The hearing is proceeding. MEDICA L TREA TMENT. HEAVY DAMAGES CLAIMED. AUCKLAND, Aug. 13. At the Supreme Court, before Mr. Justice Herdinan and a jury of twelve, Marjory Mary Ann Lawrence, of Hamilton, claimed £2OOO from Di.. H. Dundas Mackondio for alleged negligent treatment, and alleged false and fraudulent representations made tor the purpose of inducing her to undergo such treatment. Plaintiff said that defendant represented himself as a specialist in the treatment of cancer and chronic diseases. She consulted Him in regard to a growth on her breasts, and was informed by defendant that she could be cured by treatment without an oper_ ation. She was under plaintiff’s treatment for about eight weeks at the 1922, and two weeks in March, 1923. Defendant informed her that she had been ciired, and /that the disease -had been removed from her system. In consequence she took no steps to obtain other advice till August, 1923. Defoliant informfed inoo ,for the ' first time * n .September, 1923, that she was suffering from cancer. In October, 1923, she obtained independent advice on the growth that it was. cancerous. It was removed bv an operation. Defendant denies negligence, and claims that lie used all reasonable care and skill. He used what is known as Abram’s system for diagnosis and the treatment of disease. The case is proceeding.