EXEMPTION FROM RATES
AUCKLAND COMPANY SUCCEEDS IN COURT APPEAL
(PBESB ASSOCIATION TELKGBAM.) WELLINGTON. April 29. The judgment of the Court of Appeal was delivered to-day in the action of the Auckland City Corporation against Max Paykel Building, Ltd. Exemption from general rates was claimed for the seventh floor of the defendant company's building in Anzac avenue, Auckland, because it was tenanted by the Department of Agriculture. Action was taken by the Corporation to recover these rates, amounting to £25 4s 2d, and by consent the question of law was ordered to be argued and removed into the Court of Appeal. In his judgment delivered this morning, the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, held that the defendant company as owner of the land and that portion of the building thereon in respect of which the plaintiff claimed general rates, was exempt from payment thereof by reason of i 1» occupation by His Majesty the King through the Department of Agriculture. In a separate judgment Mr Justice Callan answered the question in the same manner. Mr Justice Northcroft agreed with the other judgments.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22389, 30 April 1938, Page 23
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