COURT AWARDS £11,983

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 142, 13 December 1939, Page 13

COURT AWARDS £11,983

HUTT VALLEY LAND

TAKEN BY PROCLAMATION

For just over 21 acres o-f land taken by proclamation at Waiwetu, on the Hutt River estuary, for reclamation purposes, the Compensation Court today awarded £11,983 10s against the Minister of Public Works. The claimants were awarded £125 costs, with disbursements and witnesses' expenses to be settled by the Registrar, and the Crown was ordered to pay each of the two assessors £105. The. case lasted four days and one evening, the claim being for £17,244.

The Court consisted of Mr. Justice Biair, with Mr. F. W. Furkert and Mr. H. F. O'Leary, K.C., as assessors.

The claimants were Alexander Kenneth Scobie Mackenzie and Cheviot Wellington Dillon Bell, solicitors, as registered proprietors, and Mrs. Margaret Sara Johnston, wife of Mr. Justice Johnston, Mrs. Iris Brenda Rolleston, widow, of Wellington (temporarily in England), Miss Beatrix Enid Bell, of Wellington (temporarily in England), Mrs. Violet Caroline Denniston, of Wanganui, and C. W. D. Bell, as beneficial owners. -

Mr. P. B. Cooke, K.C., with him Mr, R. C. Christie, appeared for the claimants, and Mr. A. E. Currie, with him Mr. C. H. Rogers, for the Crown.