SOLICITORS’ FEES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 116, 26 February 1937, Page 6

SOLICITORS’ FEES.

FOR MORTGAGE ADJUSTMENT. PAYMENT BY CROWN TENANTS. There was some uncertainty at the meeting of the Ashburton Branch of the Crown Tenants’ Association this afternoon, about whether solicitors fees under mortgage adjustment should coma out of the Crown tenants’ farm revenue or not. No one present at the meeting could clear the point up. The president (Mr B. Mac Kay) said there was one point he desired to bring up, and that was whether, under the Final Adjustment Act, all solicitors’ fees should he paid out oi the revenue of tho farm. A member stated that there was nothing which stated this had to be done.

Mr L. L. Aitken suggested that the only way to test it was to send in the account endorsed for payment. The president: “So I did, and I got it back. (Laughter). He admitted however, that is was only a small point. The meeting discussed several matters concerning valuation, and the position of returned soldiers in committee, and later discussed the transport of secondary school children with the principal of tbe Ashburton Technical High School (Mr AA r . Crawford).