LATE TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 8 April 1908, Page 7

LATE TELEGRAMS.

* THE OTEKAIKE LAND APPEAL

CASE.

[PEE 33 ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, April 8.

In the Court of Appeal Mr Hoskuig •continued bis argument for the plaintiffs, contending that the relationship created by section 80 of the, Act was a contractual one, there being the offer •by plaintiffs and the acceptance by the Board subject to the Minister's approval. The conditions were fulfilled and the contract completed and irrevocable. The -Court should, by granting the remedies prayed for, enforce its performance by the Board. Mr Hosking further contended that plaintiffs were deprived of their employment T>y the' acquisition of estates, but even if that- were not so the Board, having once found in their favor, such finding was conclusive and could not be reviewed by the Supreme Court. Sections 48, 49, 52, 53, and 99 constituted the Board a tribunal of exclusive jurisdiction for determining questions of fact, but, assuming the Court had jurisdiction to' review the evidence, the finding of the-Board could not be disturbed. Employment on the very land acquired was not essential, so long as the plaintiffs were employed by the owners of the land.