LEGAL INQUIRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1928, Page 17

LEGAL INQUIRY.

Letters of inquiry will be answered every week in this column. As far as possible they will be dealt with in the order in which they are received, and replies will be inserted with the least possible delay.

bave not r> Pr 'ect gentleman you should not nlTJf«\ r . u hrtul(l call shortly and ask for your title of conveyance as the case may be. RATES.—(I) The penalty can be charged iLi e are not P ald within six /o7 t? f J* 1011 " 18 of the demand. have not had your name removp.l from the ratepayers' roll y ." u a re liable, though you may be able to recover from the person who should pay them. (3) You mu»t first object to the valuation placed oil jour land within the time specified on your notiee of re valuation. If the Assessment Court dtes not reduce the value to your f : gure, you may offer the land to the Goversment at the value you pl ;IC e on it. If the Government will not buy then, your valuation is reduced to the figures at which vou offered it.

H.H.—You maj- be sued. SUPPORTER.—You do not give sufficient information to enable me to adviee whether the local tody is liable. Your father s death will not affect the liability. OMEGA.—You should pet a judgment as eoon as possible. After that vou will have to use your own discretion whether to force the debtor or give biin time. INQT IKER.—The r-se is 60 for women and 6o_ for men. The maximum pension is i tit's 10/, which includes a special allowance. The pensioner may earn £'i 2 without affecting his pension. He I can also hold £50 worth of property I without affecting the pension, but his pension is diminished by £1 for every £13 of property held above £50. The furniture, his interest in any property on which he permanently resides, or an annuity for life only, .are excluded from the computation of the capital \alue of his property. The annuity will, of course, count as income. Residence iu Australia does not qualify you for a pension hero. Regarding rates, see answer to -Rates" aoov» Your questions are far too general: yon should state the facts of your own case, and not ask for an exposition of the law applying to all pensioners. The above is only a summary, and is not exhaustive. W.T.B.—Distrain for the rent if your lease gives you the right, otherwise give notice to quit and sue for possession. B.C.T.—Payment in advance does not exempt the landlord or tenant from giving the requisite notice. INQUIRER. —You are not entitled to a pension. ANXIOUP.— mortgagee Is entitled to pay-merit of- the whole of the mortgage money, and interest and unpaid rates. You t-hould make the best bargain you can with him. and try to pi>t hini* to give you a clearance. Rather than con tinning to pay for a property you have lost, you may prefer to file in bank ruptcy. LANCING.—You are entitled to a rebate of one-half of the rates while the dwelling was unoccupied. Rates are chargeable on all Improvements whether completed or not. It is purely a matter of the value of the property and not of its state. ANXIOUS. —You are not being treated liberally, but you are getting all y,-u are entitled to. You can please yourself whether you lose the deposit or complete the purchase. FIJI.—A judge of the Supreme Court may give consent in lieu of the parent's If thinks this refusal is unreasonable.