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More the case of, during the recent drought, the canoe owners (PPX) renting some canoes and paddles out (to PXUPA) on payment of a security amount to ensure safe return but are now refusing to periodically supply new paddles as some become broken or lost overboard, or to return the full amount of the security for the canoes, on the simple pretext the canoes and paddles supplied are becoming used and of decreasing value.

Accordingly the canoes are not going to be returned and sit increasingly adrift as the paddles become non-existent.