COMPENSATION COURT.
THE ll6cffl(||j&RNON CASE. A GENEROUS AWARD. Press Association. Electric Telegraph Copyright. Napier, May 3 The assessors in the Mount Vernon compensation ease sKCceeded in agreeing, and the award was deliverer! this morning, J. W. Harding, who claimed £155,878 for 7303 acres, is awarded £35,728; and A. 11. Harding, who c'aimsd £68,8 Jl for 6201 acres, is awarded £57,777. In regard to tbe latter award, 2000 acres were deducted for a reserve area. The total is equal to about £6 17s par acre, and Sir R. Stout, in delivering the award, referred to it as a very geuorons ono. Costs, £230 each, were allowed.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 102, 4 May 1904, Page 4
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105COMPENSATION COURT. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 102, 4 May 1904, Page 4
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