LAND DEAL SEQUEL
MISREPRESENTATION ALLEGED
(Per Press Association.} HAMILTON, this day.
At the Supremo Court, before Mr. (Justice Hcrdman and a. special jury, a ease is being heard in- which Frederick Freeman Rogers, farmer, of Te 1 Awamutu, is suing the Matarawa Land Co., Ltd., for kIOOCt damages for alleged misrepresentation iii coniiec- : lion with the sale of a farm at Tokoma, near Pntarurn. Over -10 witnesses" are being called ami the case is likely to last fill Friday. ~ It is' alleged in the statement- of : ; claim that in .020 the defendant com:y:\x\j, being fully aware that the land' was cattle sick' and unsuitable .for dairying, subdivided the kind and goffered it af .-ruction as dairy farms. 'Two farms word sold at the' sale, but) after endeavoring to milk on their lands for two 1 seasons' both' had abandoned their' holdings' oir ac : ;cihVul. of tluur heavy losses of stock ■1 h rough sickness. Four separate claims were set down' 'for hearing against the company this 'session, but three could not be reached. • .. ... . ,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16211, 8 December 1926, Page 13
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173LAND DEAL SEQUEL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16211, 8 December 1926, Page 13
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