A CLAIM DISMISSED.
A BOER WAR MEAT CONTRACT. By Cable.—Press Association.—Oopyrigm London, December 20. Ihe action on a petition of right from the Imperial Cola Storage Companv claiming' £280,000 damages from the Crown, for breach, of contracts, has been dismissed with costs,
It was claimed that the War Office representatives promised to supply the company with all the stock captured vy Lord Kitchener during the Boer War at a penny a pound below the price of the contract for supplying meat to the "my, whereas the War Office charged threepence above the contract prio and refused to allow for the disease or poverty of the animals. According to some of the witnesses, Lord Kitchener declared that the old contractors d»frauded the War Office of a millio-i c■ '??,' that , ' 0 W0l,,(l ,10t b <-' satisfied till he ~„t sc„ 1( . „, it back fro ,„ the suppliants. An important nucsti-.ii involved was whether the agreements were made mll |,. r th,. Dutch o r the Lnglish law.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 271, 22 December 1909, Page 2
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162A CLAIM DISMISSED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 271, 22 December 1909, Page 2
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