GLEN AFTON COLLIERIES.
PAYMENT OF ROYALTIES. (Oy Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON", Wednesday. The Court of Appeal to-day reserved its decision in the case of Alexander McKinnon and othors v. Glen Afton Collieries, Limited. The case to be determined is whether certain royalties and wayleaves .payable by defendants under a mining lease of certain, coal seams, or beds, from plain- ' tiffs are "rents payable in respect of land or any interest in land" within the meaning of section 31 of the National Expenditure Adjustment Act, 1932. The defendants claim that such royalties and wayleaves fall within this definition and are consequently reduced by 20 per cent by viitue of the operation of the said Avt- Plaintiffs deny that this is so.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 234, 3 October 1935, Page 12
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119GLEN AFTON COLLIERIES. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 234, 3 October 1935, Page 12
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