APPEAL COURT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 239, 9 October 1907, Page 7

APPEAL COURT.

A NOVEL POINT. [PRBBS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Oct. 8. The first case before the Appeal Court is Fitchett and Pother v. the Mayor of Wellington. This involves a new point of interest to all Corporations who find their own water-supply. Wellington City took 302 acres by proclamation near the Karori dam, for which some £23,000 compensation was claimed. Section 305 of the Municipal Corporations Act forbids the fouling of any water or watershed by allowing drainage to flow into it, and the corporation claimed, in face of this, that the land taken could not bo valued on the basis of building or even dairy land, both of which would foul the water, but only as sheepfarming land. It is this point which is to be settled by argument before the Court.