STOREKEEPER’S CLAIM
CHIEF JUSTICE’S CRITICISM LIQUOR AND SALESMANSHIP Press Association WELLINGTON, Tuesday. “I am not at all satisfied with the conduct of plaintiff,” said r.he Chief Justice, the Hon. M. Myers, in the Supreme Court at Wellington today, during the hearing of the case in which May Santos, storekeeper, of Waitangi, Chatham Islands, claimed <£934 4s 2d from Piri Pomare, sheep farmer, also of Waitangi, for goods alleged to have been supplied to defendant’s wife between 1910 and 1925 *‘l am bound to say that I accept the evidence of Mrs. Pomare as that of a truthful woman,” said the Chief Justice. “I am not at all satisfied with the conduct of plaintiff. If, as I think is the case, the plaintiff supplied this woman with liquor and induced her to buy all sorts of stuff, some of it at exorbitant charges, and then later seeks to bring this action, then I am not going to make any guesswork con elusions in her favour.” His Honour then intimated that he would go through the figures of items claimed while they were fresh in his memory. During the next day or so he would advise counsel of his finding
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 759, 4 September 1929, Page 7
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