ALLEGED BREACH OF A CROWN CONTRACT
THE CASE A^JOTJENED.
In the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. L. G. Reid, S.M., the bootmaking firm of Robert Hannah and Co. was charged with having in October and in November, 1916, wilfully broken a contract made T>y it with the Crown for the purposes of the present war. The contract was for the supply of boots, and the charges alleged that the defendant firm failed to deliver 1400 pairs of boots in accordance with tiie contract, and that it delivered certain boots which were not properly standard screwed with brass wire in accordance with"the te-rnis of tho contract. Mr. P. S. K. Macassey appeared for the Crown. An adjournment %• consent till Tuesday next was granted. At the hearing Mr. C. I'. Skerrett will conduct the defence.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3027, 14 March 1917, Page 8
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133ALLEGED BREACH OF A CROWN CONTRACT Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3027, 14 March 1917, Page 8
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