DAMAGES ASSESSED.
£1026 Awarded to English Purchaser of Land. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND. This Day. After a hearing of four days, the ac tion in which an Englishman claimed damages on account of alleged misrepresentation of the quality of land at Kaeo, was finished to-day when Mr Justice Fair entered judgment for plaintiff for £I()2(» 12s. This comprises payments made for the section of land, plus exchange and interest and expenses incurred by plaintiff in coming to and finding work in New Zealand. Plaintiff was Tom Walter Thornton, of Matamata. who when an architect in London bought a section at Kaeo for citrus fruit growing, and defendant was William Henry Ball, a former director of New Zealand Citrus Plantations, Ltd.
(Other reference to the case appears on Page 36.)
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20477, 1 December 1934, Page 13
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