QUESTION OF LIABILITY

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 82, 7 April 1933, Page 5

QUESTION OF LIABILITY

STREET IMPROVEMENTS?

The Court of Appeal yesterday heard ani application by the Palmerston North City, Council for a declaratory order interpreting the provisions of section 179 of th«j Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, and defining t}ie liability of owners of lamj and buildings fronting! footways and channels in streets. Some six years ago the Palmerston North City Council carried out certain- street improvements, and in the. followingVyear rt&de a demand upon the property; owners"affected for half the cost b£-j9ie worlc.'.lnioftler to settle the responsibility or otherwise of . the land owners concerned, the -corporation asked the Court' of Appeal : 'for a declaratory; order. .:...■ ■ ...■..• . ■ ~.'._ >:v; Mr. J. O'Shea appeared for the corporation, and Mr. M. H.'Orain, of Palmersto*' North,, for the property owners. 4 "After hearing legal argument, the Cpur| •eserved its decisiog, \;