WHARFAGE DUES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 83, 26 March 1929, Page 5

WHARFAGE DUES

CHARGES AGAINST STEAM TRAWLERS

RIGHT OF NAPIER HARBOUR

QUESTION FOR COURT OF APPEAL.

[Far Pre«t Association.)

Wellington, March 26.

The right of the Napier Harbour Board to charge certain wharfage dues against steam trawlers using its wharves was questioned in the Court of Appeal (Mr. Justice Herdman, acting-Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Adams and Mr. Justice MacGregor) to-day, in the case of the Napier Harbour Board v. the New Zealand Trawling and Fish Supply Co., Ltd.

The action was commenced in April of last year by the plaintiff board issuing a summons in the Magistrate’s Court against the company claiming £l2B 10/- for wharfage dues in respect to bunker coal, fish and gear landed or shipped from the wharves at Port Ahuriri, Napier. In July the action was removed into the Supreme Court, the defendant company having filed a statement of defence denying liability on a point of law. The case was further removed into the Court of Appeal for argument on the question of law involved. For the pliintiff Mr. Weston appeared and for the defendant Mr. Gray, K.C., and Mr. Brixton.