A “Ridiculous Law.”
I An interesting legal position arises j in respect to the collection of special j rates on properties . over which the j State Advances Department holds : mortgages (states the Wanganui | “Chronicle”). Mr W. Morrison (chair- | man of the Waitotara County) at the ! meeting last week, said that a test case , was likely to determine the matter., 'lt appears that if special rates on these properties are not paid they become a charge on the council, yet there is no machinery under which the ' council can legally pay them. On the oilier hand, the State Advances De- „ pari merit, acting within its rights as mortgagee, could claim some of the council's property—its lorries, rollers,, etc. When this information was given to the Waiotara County, Councillors R. Farley and F. IT. Allen suggested that the department should he allowed to take the lorries if they wanted to. “Let them do it,” said Councillor Al- , lon. “We would have them back in a week. A law like that is ridiculous.”
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Franklin Times, Volume XXII, Issue 8, 20 January 1932, Page 8 (Supplement)
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