PAYMENT TO FERRY CO.

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29903, 17 August 1962, Page 10

PAYMENT TO FERRY CO.

Compensation £190354 fN.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Aug. 16 Compensation of £ 190.554 has been assessed to be paid by the Auckland Harbour Bridge Authority to the Devon port Steam Ferry Company. Ltd. The Minister of Works (Mr Guesman) today said that the commission appointed under the Auckland Harbour Bridge Act, 1950, to assess, in terms of that act the amount of any compensation that should be padd by the Auckland Harbour Bridge Authority in respect of any claim made by the Devonport Steam Ferry Company, Ltd., or by any of its employees or by the Auckland Harbour Board had now submitted its report to the Governor-General. Mr S. L. Paterson, a wellknown former stipendiary magistrate, was constituted and appointed to be the commission. Mr D.- H. Steen, a public accountant of Auckland. previously appointed to assist earlier commissions under that act, had been again appointed in a similar capacity.

The claim by the Auckland Harbour Board had by agreement been determined between the board and the authority by arbitration and claims by former company employees had been dealt with in an interim report of the commission made to the Governor-General.

The Ferry Company had claimed £341.715 but the Bridge Authority claimed the figure should be £160,716.