FISHERMEN AND RENT

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 114, 11 November 1919, Page 8

FISHERMEN AND RENT

i (BI TBLEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) I "■',.,'. WAIMATE, This Day. v In the 'case Waimate Acclimatisation j-Society v. Crust, Dunedin, a claim for ■Ms 6d,rentfor a hut placed by defendant 'fin the Waitaki South Fiehing Reserve .-in 1913, 'the Magistrate, Mr. W. R. JM'Kean;' decided that the right having ;been given' on the sole condition that Crust would take out a Waimate fishing license, *tho- question resolved itself into ■whether the license /was revocable. The Magistrate decided it was revocable. On the other hand, the claim being based on use and occupancy, the account was not due till Ist December next. He therefore nonsuited the plaintiff society: As no method of apportioning the amount due at the date of the summons had been agreed on, the .plaintiff society mighfcsue, again, say, on 2nd December. The casowa3 brought as a test. There arc some score of .'others;'but the holders Are resisting the right of the Waimate society to demand a tax for huts erected at Waltonians' private cost.