CLAIM FOR PILLAGE.
AGAINST THE RAILWAYS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, May 1. A claim against the Railway Department for the price of goods which it was alleged were pillaged between Lyttelton and Christchurch was heard in the Magistrate’s Court. Plaintiffs were Harris and Co., who claimed the sum of £43 Is and duty £6 IGs on account of a roll of cloth missing from a case unloaded at Lyttelton and delivered to plaintiffs. Counsel said the claim had been made on the Railway Department, but the department refused to recognise it on the grounds that there had been no reasonable opportunity for pillage wnuc the goods were on the railway. The New Zealand Shipping Co. repudiated liability for the pillage, having received a clean receipt from the Railway Department. Counsel for the defence urged that the plaintiff firm be non-suited, there being no legal proof that the missing goods were ever in the case, and no proof that the pillage occurred on the railway. The magistrate said he would reserve decision on the question of nonsuit. The case is proceeding.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1922, Page 5
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180CLAIM FOR PILLAGE. Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1922, Page 5
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