DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1921, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

DAMAGES AGAINST LESSEE. By Telegraph —Press Association. Wanganui, Last Night. After a three days’ sitting a Supreme Court jury to-night awarded the Abbot estate £3OO damages in a ease against John Calver, butcher, for not fulfilling the terms of a lease. The evidence showed that twenty-one years ago Calver leased 74 acres, which ho used as store paddocks. The land is of a very sandy nature and twenty acres are now sand drift, while the fences are in a state of disrepair. Plaintiff claimed £BOO damages. GOVERNMENT RETRENCHMENT.

Wellington, Sept. 1. The services of some hundred and thirty employees in Government departments were dispensed with as from yesterday (the end of the month) in pursuance of the Government’s intention to effect economics in administration, wherever such can be effected without impairing the efficiency of the service.

DAZZLING HEADLIGHTS. Waihi, Sept. 1. An interesting point to motorists was determined in a case in the Magistrate s Court in which a taxi driver sought to recover £25 damages caused through a mounted man riding into plaintiffs car. The defence raised was that immediately the car came round the corner the glare from the dazzling headlights prevented defendant from seeing anything. His horse got out of hand and collided with the car. The Magistrate, Mr. Salmon, held that plaintiff’s failure to dim his headlights was negligence on his part and gave judgment against