COURT OF APPEAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 639, 16 October 1909, Page 14

COURT OF APPEAL.

LAND*TAKEN AS, A SCENERY_ RESERVE, ,' y 'through: eour' coukts. - ; ■ . A qucatiofl submittcd to the Court of Appeal . wheth'^the Native■. Appellate , SSi : iCourt^lia'd''jurisdiction', to ; 'a? a„Copipen : ■ •satioiuCpurt the Public . Works. Act, ; 1905.. .l'he. case was .heard before thejr Honours V Justices. Williams (Actmg-Chief.' : 4ustice)i' Ldn'ards, Cofcper, and Chapman. t . The for Public Works was plaintiff, lv',-:-, defendants were-Hobert Noble Jones. , ' and,<Cjharlea Ldward Ma?Cprmiok, v,ofy ; *5 *\ "(the,Native^Appellate-:Court,: arid:' Alfred Julian, ! farmey, of To Kuiti. * ! " The.s;facts,"V.M for' the, .information- • of briefly,[ that ;,a secti.op of .Distribt ha 4 iSftii-'; vbeMP.ftkeaV-for. ■"sctoery- ;preservacioii -purpose's, |&iS>?^y;'Pi^er»iii-(itoTOcU<datJa;Mi^ ) 27,'-19ff7i .under;.' tiwv Section .89 of.the Public Act,-1005; The i Tinder.Section ■ s*.9l >r•*-SQ{>lio i otlcs" -tho-Native 1 ' , land flourt'made an order awarding. .£127 10s.' , tojJulian. a? <jonipensation foi;. the'iioss , ; i le'iiso,'j -Juliap, ,appf alod .from.;; this. decision;'; t0.,., ,f;,'the Nativo'Appenato'Cotirt.'on; the ground -that" ' : -that';?;Court-; to <" the 1 ' :''f:^/?;: ; i .:'Supremo'Court obtain' an opinion. as to i£*\;Av~'^'cjdett- Appellate.. Court. limd . '' ' - jufisdiction. ' PlaiqtflF-tlteir-tftO't'sd ~fov~-0.-o- ---• ,bibition to^restriimyljie'Nativ® Appellate- Court! g-j'-f*jiS;V'--jqieafing ; .-the/appeal,; and this motion, by pr.order, .of-:Mr.. JUstice : Edwards, 'had. been renfoved into tho Court ,pf Appeal. » Mr. M. Chapman, K C., appeared forlplaintilf,' ' - and Mr. "F. Earl (pf Auckland) for the dei. ■ Julian.; -TJheV-judges',.{of r-.the '•Natj.vo;. < Appellate Court,were ■ ."Haying heard Mr;^Chapman's.argument, and ;;; J^v;;''*?ith"oit'- ; 'calline,mEon their; Honours decided ithntSanr.appeal-'miistnioJ.i.Tliejifallacy''. , for.:;th;e';;j[inistbr: hati.'biiDn 0"" : '-BV*''tKat''the 1: NUtiveVlandtCpnrt''W!is.'sittinK as -a Csmpen'sation Court., , »^W :> :lfcth^^Sl^'i«f'cbß®f6ff'fKr r inid3te'Stsa^' as-;fr6ni;;a' distance.-• , • ■ ' '■