PETITION OF RIGHT.
BOER WAR CONTRACT.
ACTION AGAINST BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
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LONDON, November 5.
The trial has commenced of an action on a petition of right from the Imperial Cold Storage Company, claiming £280,000 damages from the Crown for breach of contracts. It is claimed that the War Office representatives promised to supply the company with all the stock captured by Lord Kitchener during the Boer War at a penny a pound below the price of the contract for supplying"meat to the Army, whereas the War Office charged threepence above the contract price, 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 defrauded the War Office of a million sterling, and he would not be satisfied till he got some of it back from the suppliants. An important question involved is whether the agreements were made under the Dutch or the English law.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9643, 8 November 1909, Page 5
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164PETITION OF RIGHT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9643, 8 November 1909, Page 5
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