IN OTHER PLACES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16882, 9 July 1920, Page 5

IN OTHER PLACES.

APPEAL COURT. C TRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.')

WELLINGTON, July S. To-day the Appeal Court heard the caso cl Chiistchxirch City Corporation v. C.hrist 3 College, which had been removed for arguiiieut. This is an action for rate 3in respect !o a building in 1 voilc-s ton avenue known as Bow-cn House, and usod as a boarding-house and liost-c-1 in connoxion with iho College. The building is not on the Co'lego grounds, but is on the otliev side of Kolleston ®- ve " nuo, and v,-a« purchased by tlie College Board of Governors in 1917. Tho qxiostioil i s whether this property is exempt from rating under Section 2 (g) of the Rating Act, 1008. Mr H. H. Loughnajt appeared for the plaintiC3, and Mr W. J. Sim for the defendant". Mr Sim contended that the* building in Question was p-art of tho College, and that the word "school," where used in Scctiqn 2 (g) must receive the widest construction. Mr' Loughnan contended that tlio institution is carried on exclusively for profit, and therefore clots not come within the exemption in Section 2 (g) cf the Bating Act, 1308. Judgment wa« reserved. . The Appeal Court is hearing an appeal from the decision of Mr Justice Herdrnan in ths caso of Knight v. the National Mortgage and Agencv Co., Ltd., and A- -i.o T i. The Mount Hutt Road Board sold to appellant the light to cut cocksfoot on certain roads under its control for the season of 1919. The company, as agent for th© respondent Ashton, entrusted .certain sheep to a- drover who drovo tho sheop along these reads and, in doing go, certain damage to cocksfoot was done. On the evider.ee accepted by Mr Justic® ll?rdman instructions were given tho drover to wander about indefinitely on the roads until the destination for the stock vtm "-ivcir him. His Honour decided, hovever, that the plaintiff could not recover damages as the lioad Beard had no light, to soil tl-A cocksfoot growing on the roads unless U had received the prior authority of tho Governor-Gen -ral-ir.-Council in pursuance, or Section 120 of the Public Works Act, 1903. Tho present appeal is from that decision. Mr Mycra and Mr Upharn appeared for Kni"ht, Mr "Wilding for tho defendant companv, unci Mr Gre&son for tliQ d<?fodid<ini> Ashlon. NOMAD IMPRISONED. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) TAIHAPE, July S. An unkempt, primeval looking man, havijio- several yoar®' growth of hair * s lace "and head, w*is run to eartli in tho back country yesterday. He had subsisted on whatever camo his way. For four or five years ho had evaded the police and others, running like a deor, and .jumping like a dog. Eventually he was run clown by a horseman, who had. lain in for him on Cottrell's OrUamatua Station. He gave hi 3 name a3 Hajrrv Willis, and his ago as fifty, but ho appeared sturdy and muscular. Ho had wandered the hill country between Taihapo and Nawier for upwards of four years. At the Tniliapc Magistrates Court he pleaded not guilty to a < hargo oE being an idle and disorderly poison. He refused to give evidence, or make any explanation, savin 0 * "I ksep everything to myself. lie was ecntcnc-cd to threo months imprison* rnent in Wellington gaol.