FOR USE OR BEAUTY?
Jl COMPENSATION CASE.
(Hy l'eU<i>inpli.-i'res9 Association.)
HAMILTON, This Day
A compensation claim has been brought by Thomas Hanna, Archibald Ivor Fiitei'son, and .William 11. Do Lucn. Auckland, against the Crown for £4200 for 08 ;i0.r03 of land taken by the Public, Works Department, on the Fraikton sido of Hamilton Lake, on bohalf of the Hamilton Domain Board for recreation purposes. The board offered the owners £10,000 for the land, but this was refused, and the board then seized tho land under tho Publk Works Act, as it feared that tho draining of the land which the ownon proposed would permanently reduce the level of tho lake and destroy Hamilton's chief beauty spot. After hearing evidence for two d::ys, tho Court, over which Mr. .Justice Ostler presided, awarded the'claimants £1960.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 75, 29 March 1926, Page 8
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133FOR USE OR BEAUTY? Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 75, 29 March 1926, Page 8
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