HARBOUR BOARD CONTRACT.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4576, 29 April 1922, Page 1

HARBOUR BOARD CONTRACT.

PRONOUNCED INVALID BY APPEAL COURT. (Per Prjss Association.) Wellington, April 28. The Court of Appeal continued the hearing of argument in the cases between the Gisborne Harbour Board and George Henry Lysnar. The lattor's counsel, Mr Burnard, cited further authorities in support of his argument that section 57 of the Harbours Act did not compel the Harbour Board to call public tenders for work of the type referred to in the Board's contract with Mr Lysnar. After Mr Myers had replied, Sir Robert Stout stated that the Court was, of the opinion tho section was mandatory, but the of the Court would be put in writing. The result of this expression of opinion by the Court will bo that the appeal by the Gisborne Harbour Board will ha allowed, and the contract between Mr Lysnar and the Board declared invalid.