SUPREME COURT.
’ COUNCILLORS FINED. (BY TELEGKAPn—rRRKH ASSOCIATION.) ? MASTERTON, Sept. 26. In the Supreme Court the Mayor (Mr. Pragnell) and eleven other councillors and ex-councillors of the Masterton Borough Council were each fined £5 for illegally transferring money ‘from a special loan account, which was in credit, to the general account, which was in debt, in order to save overdraft interest. The Judge agreed that the councillors had acted in what they considered to be the interests of the ratepayers, but the act was illegal unless authorised by Order-in-Council. The prosecution was brought by the Audit Department. In the case of Jacob Johnston versus the International Harvester Company, a claim for damages for removing a milking plant from plaintiff’s farm and trespass, the jury returned a. verdict that plaintiff was entitled to damages for the engine £56, vacuum pump £25, other milking parts £IOO, and trespass £IOO. Further consideration of this case was reserved for the Full Court.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 September 1924, Page 7
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157SUPREME COURT. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 September 1924, Page 7
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