NOVEL LITIGATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 53, 31 January 1884, Page 3

NOVEL LITIGATION.

An Education Board In ; - Trouble. .',".'.. . tfll /TELEGRAPH ) (UNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION .)■ : Gretmouth, January 30. Quite a novel feature, m educational difficulties cropped up hei c to-day. A. few days ago Messrs Scabrook arid Arnott, builders, got three judgments against the Education Board for arrears for the erection, of sohool buildings, for wpiich cheques had been given five months' ago.- Besides this they are oived by the Board £320. Some of i»" has been owing twenty month*. All this. work, was publicly tendered for and 7§ per cent, was to, be paid m progress payments, of which the contractors received nothing. For several days attempts were made to put the- bailiff:' in the Education Board offices, and take possession of the books and stationery, but without avail, and to-drfyi the bailiff walked into, the State school* and now a titan is. m possession. The children 1 \reVe sent home early m. the. afternoon Tlfe contractors , waited upon Sir O'Gibbes, the ropresttiitativc ot'lhe Government, sent, to .,.i he c.»:tst> oh this matter, and he said that hh coulil not promise that their debts would bn liquidated jbefore Parliament met, and ,that ;thentjiey would probably have to wait another five months. Besides all thi* thdse contractors now have contracts m hand for the Board amounting to L6OO.