ALLEGED BREACH OF AGREEMENT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19670, 12 December 1933, Page 13

ALLEGED BREACH OF AGREEMENT

DISPUTE WITH WHEAT BOARD CHRISTCHURCH, December 11. The question whether or not there had been a breach of an agreement to store wheat was argued before Mr Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court this morning. A claim for wheat supplied to an Ashburton merchant was admitted, and the case turned on a counter- ! claim, alleging that an agreement with defendant had been broken, j Plaintiff was the New Zealand 1 Wheat Growers’ Co-operative Assocla- | tion, Ltd., carrying on business as a ! wheat pool, and otherwise. H. L. Barker, of Ashburton, merchant, was ; the defendant. The statement of claim set out that plaintiff supplied to defendant 1473 sacks of wheat at a price amounting i • the defendant a balance of £444 The amount of £444 was claimed, together with interest at 5 per cent., from June 21, 1932, to the date of judgment. In I the counter-claim, defendant claimed : £B4l. or in the alternative £675 and the j costs of the action. Alter hearing the evidence, his 1 Honour gave Judgment for the Assocla- ! Lion on the claim, with costs. The | counter-claim failed.