HAMILTON LAKE.
CLAIM AGAINST GOVERNMENT SUCCEEDS.
Par Preso Association. ' HAMILTON, March 29. A compensation claim has been brought by Thomas Hanna, Archibald! Ivor Paterson, and William H. da Luen, Auckland, against tho Crown for £4200 for G 8 acres of land taken by the Public Works Department on the Frankton side of the Hamilton Lake, on behalf of the Hamilton Domain Board for ro6reation purposes. The board offered the owners £IO,OOO for the land, but this was refused, and the board then seized the land under the Public Works Act, as it feared that the draining of the land which tho owners proposed would permanently reduce the level of the lake and destroy Hamilton's chief beauty upot. After hearing evidence for two days, tho Court over which Mr Justice OstTer presided, awarded tho claimants £lubo.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 102, 30 March 1926, Page 7
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135HAMILTON LAKE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 102, 30 March 1926, Page 7
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