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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 34, 10 February 1930, Page 3

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TAIHAPE RETURNED SOLDIERS’ ASSOCIATION A letter from General Bussell, Dominion president of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association accepting the invitation of the Taihape branch of the R.S.A. to be present at their reunion on March 21 was read at a general meeting of the local Association on Friday evening. The president (Mr J. Smart) presided over a good attendance The letter read as follows. “If all goes well it would be a great pleasure to come to your reunion on March 21 and I thank you for the invitation. It is welcome news to hear you have resuscitated the Association and I am sure that your experience will be that of many other associations in finding that there is plenty of life in the movement, plenty of work to do, and a great deal of pleasure to be got out of it.” It was decided to hold the reunion in the Town Hall and a sub-committee consisting of the president and secretary and Messrs E. Quinn, J. Niven, F. Sainty and H. Collings was appointed to make the necessary arrangements and issue the invitations. In accordance with a notice of motion standing in his name, Mr W. White moved that the motion passed in October deferringd the matter of procuring badges for the three honorary life members be deferred for six months, be rescinded and that the badges be procured as soon as possible. The motion was carried and the matter of procuring the badges which will be presented at the reunion on March 21 was left in the hands of Mr J. J. Collins. The opinion that when the Railway Department is employing casual labour, preference should be given to returned soldiers was expressed by Mr Quinn who said that when the Railway Department required casual workers it should give preference to returned soldiers. Mr Quinn’s remarks were endorsed by other speakers and it was resolved to send a remit to the annual conference of the N.Z.R.S.A. along the lines indicated. It was also resolved to write to the Minister of Railways and the General Manager, the general secretary of the R.S.A. and Mr J. T. Hogan, M.P in connection with the matter which will also be discussed with the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, on the occasion of his visit to Taihape this month.

MAGISTRATE’S COURT The monthly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court concluded on Friday morning. Frank Heise, tobacconist, at Mangaweka, sought to recover from George E. Little, mercer, Taihape, the sum of £6 ss, being the purchase money paiu for a suit which plaintiff procured defendant and later returned to him. Mr R. C. Ongley appeared for plaintiff and Mr W. H. Mac Lean represented defendant. In outlining the case Mr Ongley said that Heise had visited defendant’s shop on New Year’s Eve and asked for a box suit. He took one that he thought would suit him, but added that the suit had to satisfy his mother as well as himself. Plaintiff paid £6 15s in cash for the suit. Heise tried the suit on when he returned home and his mother said it did not fit or suit him, so he sent it back to Mr Little by a friend. Later Heise visited defendant’s shop again and told Mr Little that he had returned the suit because he was not satisfied with it. Plaintiff said he would buy a sports coat for 37s 6d and asked Mr Little to refund the balance of £4 17s 6d. Defendant had refused to do so, whereupon Heise said he would not take the sports coat and was claiming £6 5s from defendant, being the price which he had paid for the suit.

Counsel submitted that the suit had been taken on approval. No sale had been effected and Heise was entitled to have his money back. For the defence Mr Mac Lean said that the suit had been definitely sold to plaintiff at £6 15s. When Heise took the suit nothing was said by him about getting his money back if he was not satisfied with the suit. Defendant had offered to exchange the suit if Heise did not like it or to give him goods to the value of the suit, and that offer still held good. Counsel submitted that an actual sale had taken place. The Magistrate remarked that plaintiff had failed to prove that the suit was taken on approval and gave judgment for defendant with costs amounting to £1 Is. GENERAL NEWS Masters F. Murray and P. Donoghue, pupils of the Taihape Convent School, were successful in passing the Intermediate examination held in November.