FLAXBOURNE ESTATE.
[BT TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION ] BLENHEIM, sth December. In the Flaxbourne compensation case ten witnesses have been examined on the question of classification, and the evidence in this branch of the caso was concluded to-day. To-morrow morning it will be decided whether it is necessary for the Court to visit Flaxbourne (some thirty miks from Blenheim) to view the ground before classifying tho property into first-class, second-class, and thircfclass areas. In a discussion to-day, Mr. Justice Cooper said that no case yet heard under the Land for Settlements Act presented such difficulties in the matter of classification. It was remarked that the estate was as big as the combined areas of two counties in the United Kinguom, and it comprised great tracts of country ( of different' classes, closely allied.
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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1904, Page 2
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