PLANT RESEARCH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 245, 15 October 1937, Page 8

PLANT RESEARCH.

LAND FOR STATION.

CLAIM AGAINST CROWN.

COURT AWARD OF £23 10.

In a judgment given to-day by the. Compensation Court Miss Winifred Mabel Kerr-Taylor was awarded £2310 in her claim for compensation against the* Minister of Public Works for land taken at Mount Albert, under the Public Works Act, for a plant research station. Costs were fixed at £125, to be paid to claimant by the respondent. The fee of each assessor was fixed at £42, to be paid by the party appointing him.

The n ri'ii. of land, 1« acres, near the Owairaka tram terminus, was taken on ' December II last, and in her claim for compensation Miss Kerr-Taylor, as owner of the area and as the executrix of the late' Allan Kerr-Taylor, nought an amount, of £3400. Also, .an owner of a block of 10 acres adjoining the land taken by the Crown, she claimed that her interests would be injuriously affected by the taking of the 1(> acres and that the loading and subdivision of the 10acre block would lie more costly and the sections of le«s value because of the lack of access. The claim whs heard by Mr. Justice Callan. who hud associated with him as assessors the lion. John Alexander, C.M.I t.. M.L.C, and Mr. W. H, Lunn. The hearing occupied four days, during which the Court vi«itcd the property. Considerable evidence was given by valuers called by both parties. Claimant wns represented by Mr. Duthie and the Crown by Mr. V. R. Meredith.