MERCER

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 335, 4 December 1917, Page 4

MERCER

A SHIPPING CLAIM An action was heard in the Auckland Supreme Court last Thursday before the Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, in which Mr Coesar Roose, jun., of Mercer (Mr Ostler and Mr Gregory), claimed from the United Timber Company, Ltd., of Mercer (Mr McVeagh and Mr Peak), the sum of £lßl 7s sd, for towage of timber on the Waikato river. Tbe defendants made a counter-claim of £568 17s 2d as special damages, and £l5O general damages. The claim for special damages was based up<n an allegation of non-delivery of 288 logs, out of a much larger total of white pine timber that plaintiff had contracted to tow from the Northern Timber Company's booms at Mangawara to the United Timber Company's mill at Mercer, and also the loss of beckets and rafting dogs attached to the log rafts. At the outset Mr McVeagh admitted that defendants owed £l7B Is sd, as a balance due for towage. After evidence in support of the counterclaim had been taken at some length Mr McVeagh elected to accept a nonsuit in regard to it. Judgment was accordingly entered for plaintiff for the amount of the claim, and a nonsuit in respect of the counterclaim, with costs to the plaintiff.

Mr C. G. Maxwell, of the Hamilton Post Office staff, is at present acting as temporary Postmaster at Mercer.