BONUS PAID BY DAIRY FACTORY
It it Part of Price or Payment of Grace?
.DECISION IN TEST CASE
RESERVED
(Pet Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH. Last Night.
Is the final payment or theso-called bonus paid by a dairy factory to a supplier at the end of the season part of the price which the dairy factory is expected to pay for butter-fat, or Is it an ex gratia payment, a true bonus? ■ This question is Involved in a test case being brought by Walter .Frederick Kerr, of Oxford, against the Avon (Proprietary) Dairy Company (in liquidation). The claim Is for only £l4. but it is claimed that on the issue ’of the case depend many others Involving thousands of. pounds. Plaintiff was paid during the 192425 season Is 32d for "butter-fat supplied to the factory. \He received no bonus at the end of the season as in previous years. Other factories, he alleged, paid at the rate of Is 7|d during that season. He claimed therefore that he should have received 3d pei pound bonus at the did : of the season, either as bonus or as balance of the purchase price due. : r ' i ’ The case was heard by, Mr. Justice Alpers, who reserved judgment'
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Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3579, 9 April 1927, Page 8
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203BONUS PAID BY DAIRY FACTORY Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3579, 9 April 1927, Page 8
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