MAORIS AND MOTOR-CARS.
UNSUCCESSFUL SUM'
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Waxcanvi, Tuesday
"Thus i? the most unsatisfactory case that I have ever hail come before me." said Mr. VV. Kerr. y.M.. to-day in respect to a case in which Albert C Mackay sued throe natives for £32 for the hire of taxicabs. It was stated that the defendants had ordered taxicabs on seven different occasions to make visits to PaJmerston North. A chauffeur in the employ of plaintiff stated that on one occasion when in Palmerston North one of the defendants had given him a motoring coat, paying £6 15s for it. In the course of the evidence for the. defence it was stated that the three defendants were joint owners with eleven others of a block of land, and that tne taxicabs had been hired in the common interest to seek likely purchasers. In nonsuiting the plaintiff "lie magistrate said that the Maoris dearly loved motor-cars. There had been several eimitar cases of late. He could not understand how taxicab owners did such precarious business. as in many cases the natives were in indigent circumstance*.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15822, 20 January 1915, Page 9
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185MAORIS AND MOTOR-CARS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15822, 20 January 1915, Page 9
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