RATES CLAIMED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 231, 30 September 1935, Page 9

RATES CLAIMED.

ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE.

RIGHT OF EXEMPTION?

APPEAL COURT TO DECIDE.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day.

The Court of Appeal is considering the question of the liability of the St. John's College Trust Board to pay rates to the Auckland City Council in respect of its college property known as St. John's College in West Tamaki, Auckland.

In April the Auckland City Council issued a writ against the defendant board, claiming £645, being three years' rates alleged to be due in respect of the property, together with £04, being the penalty accrued and due thereon. In its pleadings the board contended that its property, upon, which it conducted a theological college for the training of students for the Anglican ministry, was exempt from rating by virtue of subsection G of "exemptions to definition of rateable property" contained in section 2 of the Rating Act, 1925, in that its lands and buildings were used for a school not carried on exclusively for pecuniary gain or profit. By consent of the parties the question was removed direct into the Court of Appeal for argument. The question to be decided is of importance to local authorities in whose rating districts are situated theological and other special colleges. Argument is proceeding.