Aintree Hearing

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30536, 3 September 1964, Page 17

Aintree Hearing

(Special Crspdt. N.Z P A.) LONDON, Sept. 2. The High Court action to decide the future of Aintree Racecourse, home of the Grand National, will start on October 2. It is estimated that it will last four days. Lord Sefton, the former owner of the land of which the racecourse forms part, will sue Tophams, Ltd., present owners of the land, and Capital and Counties Properties, Ltd. It has been said that Tophams proposed to sell the land to Capital and Counties for housing development for 15,000 people. By his writ. Lord Sefton claims injunctions restraining the defendants from causing or permitting the land to be used otherwise than in accordance with 1949 covenants —when the Earl sold the land to Tophams—restricting use to a racecourse and agricultural land. He also seeks damages and costs.

The defendants have entered appearances to the writ. When the case was before the Court in July, Tophams gave an undertaking, pending trial of the action not to allow the land to be used otherwise than for horse-racing and agriculture. Their counsel said: “The matter will be hotly contested.”

Cause of Death.—Heart diseases caused one in every three deaths and cancer one in every six in Australia last year Motor accidents were the major cause of deaths among young people.—Sydney, September 2.