APPEAL COURT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 9 April 1908, Page 8

APPEAL COURT.

THE OTAGO LAND CASE.

[PBIBS ASSOCIATION.!

WELLINGTON, April 9.

Dr. Findlay contended the Board, in deciding in plaintiff's favox, jnisinterpret■ed jfche law, and them tHe act, 'being ultra vires, was in consequent nullified. Mitchell was not manager of the Otekaike station, bub of the Plains' station, a subordinate station to Otekaike, which was mot sold to the Government. The intention of section 80 was that it should only apply <to employees on land acquired. As to McKellar,^ he was actually in the employ of the owner when he made the application, and, therefore, had not lost his employment.