NO COMPENSATION

Grey River Argus, 23 March 1945, Page 3

NO COMPENSATION

LAND TAKEN. FOR SOLDIERS P.A. NEW PLYMOUTH, March 22 Apart from the payment of smal i sums admitted by the Crown, the Taranaki Land Sales Committee in a reserved decision given at New Plymouth to-day, ruled that tne claimant, John E. G. R. Angerstein, had no claim to compensation a f* s ’ ing out of the taking of land by tne Crown under Section 51 of the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land ® ai Act. The case was tlie first ot ns kind heard in New Zealand. Ine claim which was heard l ast 11 ria“Yinvolved sums amounting to near y £6lB, and was based on losses that it was alleged would not have '? ccl ' r ' red but for the intervention ol tne Act.