LONDON INTEREST

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 9, 21 December 1933, Page 5

LONDON INTEREST

Appeal Case Decision FURTHER DETAILS WANTED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. Dec. 21. In the Legislative Council this morning, replying to a question asked by Sir Janies Allen, the Hon. R. Masters said that the Government had received a cable from the High Commissioner with regard to the decision of the House of Lords in the appeal case the Adelaide Electric Supply Company v. the Prudential Assurance, from which it appeared that in the course of its judgment the House of Lords traversed the judgment in the Broken Hill case. “It is not quite clear,” Mr Masters said, “just what effect the decision in the Adelaide case will have on the Auckland Transport Board and the Southland Electric Power Board, but the fact remains that the House of Lords, when allowing the appeal by the Adelaide Electric Supply Company stated that in their opinion Sir Justice Maughan and Lord Hanworth in the Broken Hill case were correct and that the judgment of the majority in the Court of Appeal should be treated as overruled. “The Government is in communication with the High Commissioner with a view to obtaining further information on the point.”