BREACH OF WAR CONTRACT.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1917, Page 7

BREACH OF WAR CONTRACT.

A CASE SETTLED. By Telegraph.—Press Association,

Wellington, February ft. Han. Mr. Myers, Minister of 'Munitions and Supplies lias handed to the press for publication a copy of a letter written by Mr. Maeassey, counsel for the Crown, to the solicitors for Sconlhir and Company. Ltd., containing an ofl'er of settlement by the Crown in the ease in which the firm was charged with a, breach of war regulations. Mr. Maeassey, by direction of the Minister, makes the following offer in settlement of Crown's claim: (1) That Seoulliir and Company pay to the Crown the sum of £155, made up as follows: £42 being wages for men employed in connection with the examination and reconditioning of the mattresses supplied, and the balance ( £113) for damages for breaches of contract in supplying mattresses which were deficient in flax, namely an average deficiency of 2.61b of flax on 8330 mattresses at 1.25 d per pound; (2) Scoullar and Company at its own expense to recondition and deliver 223 mattresses in place of those which were found to contain rope ends and flcor sweepings; (,'i) Scoullar and Cot„ . priiy to pay the fine of £SO and costs inflicted by the Magistrate under the recent conviction of the company for a breach of war regulations, and to abandon their appeal against conviction; (4) terms of settlement to be made public. Scoullar's solicitors accept the ofl'er and forward a cheque for £155, and they further state that the Magistrate, in stating the crsc for the Court of Appeal, expressly found it had not been proved that breaches of the contract alleged were'committed with the knowledge of neither the directors nor the manager of the company, but were duo jto one of the company's assistant foremen.