CONCERNING BLANKETS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3328, 5 November 1919, Page 4

CONCERNING BLANKETS

LAUNDRY IN TROUBLE.

CHRISTCHURCH; Nov. 4:

__ In the Magi’st'rat.‘e’s" C-3oli'rt,'-vßiown’§» Laundry ILt’d.~," Was’ charged ' 'wit’h-~—" aibreach of tHe'War' regulations ix'l'th:s;t it_ wilfully‘ broke’ 3. contract nlad'e' by it.__ ‘lt is'allegcd that the _ico'm‘-pany entered into a 'c3ol_l'trac',t.‘-to ‘wa‘shA‘ncal-ly’ fpur *thousand'blanketS, ‘which "had: been in use on’ the transport Pa.‘k'e.ha

on a passage fro‘in”__Engla'nd_ in June last. The blankets were sub'sequently rctur-‘ned to the ship, ‘but in consequence of information received by the agents of the ship they were all inspected and _the greater "proportion found not to have been washed. The ofiicials of the Company had an interview with the directors and the m:1:1ager of the" laundry, the -last-naznersl admitting that all -the blankets “lied not been washed because he had‘ not the "time, but all had bleenput through the drier and fumigator. The" laundry account of £199 19/ was repudiated. and when the Ship reached‘Weliington a contract was let to'Wash 370 of the same‘b_lankets. After hea=~3ng evidence and vcounsel, Magistrate Me-* Carthy reserved decision. A case against Street, manag&:r- of the laundry, will be heard tomorrmv.