Loan Denied.

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 18511, 1 June 1932, Page 2

Loan Denied.

QUESTION OF CLAIMS.

ERECTION OP CHURCH

(By Telegraph —Press Association). WELLINGTON, June 1

Repayment of an alleged loan of £3500 for the erection of a Roman Catholic church .at Whangarei, together with over ,£751 for interest, Was sought in the Supreme Court here today by Thomas Campbell from Dr Liston, as Bishop of the Auckland Diocese.

The statement of claim is that the defendant’s son, the parish priest of Whangarei, having the consent of the then Bishop .of Auckland (Bishop Cleary) to erect a new church, arranged a loan from his father, and was advanced the money at dates in 1926 and 1927, at 51 per cent., repayable on demand ■, The demand for repayment had been refused. The defence denies that the parish priest requested a loan for the purpose of the ereotion of the church; that the parish priest was acting as agent or with the authority of the then Bishop of Auckland; that the plaintiff agreed to lend or the Bishop agreed to borrow from the plaintiff any sum upon the terms suggested in the statement of claim; and further, that"any amount mentioned or sums that might have been paid to the parish priest, were advanced in pursuance, of the-agreement alleged in the''statement of claim, or that they or 'any ‘ part of them were applied foi or towards the erecting of a parish church.