SHOPPING MALL

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31724, 6 July 1968, Page 10

SHOPPING MALL

Jurisdiction Held By Bd

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Town and Country Planning Appeal Board has jurisdiction to hear an application to build a shopping mall in Memorial Avenue.

In a reserved decision given yesterday Mr Justice Macarthur dismissed a motion by three objectors to the application for a writ prohibiting the board from hearing the application. The application is for a specified departure from the provisions of the operative district scheme of the Waimairi County Council. It asks that a piece of land zoned residential A be used for commercial purposes. The application has been made to the board by the W. J. Turner family partnership. The objectors are Lester Frederic Allison, a clergyman, John Charles Marshall, a company director, and Ernest Lascelles Bohisch, a manufacturer. His Honour said he considered the board had jurisdiction to consider and dispose of the application for a specified departure under section 35 of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1953, in so far as the application related to the land owned by the applicants. His Honour dismissed the motion.

Found Guilty Of Incest

In the Supreme Court yesterday a jury found an accused man guilty of incest. Mr Justice Macarthur remanded the man until next Thursday for sentence, and ordered that his name be suppressed. The man was arraigned on two charges, on one of which 1 the jury found him not guilty.