LAND FOR PUBLIC WORKS.
COMPENSATION AND BETTERMENT (By Telegraph.— Press Association.) W-HLLINGTOX, this day. The Full Court delivered reserved judgment this morning in the case Robert. Ross v. tin. Minister of Public Work.-*. The decision is of importance as interpreting Section li of the Public Works Act, itltts. The majority of the Court held that in assessing compensation to be awarded the claimant in respect of his claim for compensation for lands taken, the Compensation Court cannot take into consideration by way of reduction any increase in value of claimant's lands likely to be canned" by execution of the works, that only where there is a claim for injurious affection to lands ol" claimant taken can oiry deduction for betterment be made, and the deduction that can be made is of any in crease in value of claimant's land, whether shared in generally by all land in the district or not, and the deduction is from the amounts claimed for injurious affection, and not from compensation for the lands taken. They also held £hat where part of the lands taken were suitable as quarry lands in respect to compensation they were on the same footing as any other lands.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 180, 30 July 1913, Page 6
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LAND FOR PUBLIC WORKS.
Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 180, 30 July 1913, Page 6
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