APPEAL ALLOWED.
N.Z. CASE AT PRIVY COUNCIL,
LONDON, February 24,
The Privy Council has given its decision in the ease of Barton and others v. Pihodcs-Moorhouse and others, in connection with the Rhodes estate. The appeal was allowed.
The appeal was from a portion of the decision of the New Zealand Court of Appeal delivered on October IS, 1933.
The case involved an estate tail of property, approaching £300,000 in value, under the will of the late Hon. W. B. Rhodes. M.L.C., who died in February, 1878, including the Highland Park Estate, Wellington, According to the cable message the effect of the Privy Council's decision is that the proceeds of the sales of land (chiefly the Highland Park property) carried out under the powers conferred by the Rhodes Trust Act, 1901, belong absolutely to William Henry Rhodes Moorhousc, who will be 21 years of age shortly. He is the only son of the late Captain Rhodes 'Moorhousc, V.C., who was killed in action in April. 1015, and a nephew of Edward Rhodes Moorhousc, whose name is mentioned in the title of the case.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 47, 25 February 1935, Page 7
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