COMPENSATION FROM CROWN
HAMILTON’S CHIEF BEAUTY SPOT. [Per Press Association.] HAMILTON, March 29. A compensation claim has been brought by Thomas Hanna, Archibald Ivor Paterson, and William H. De Luen, Auckland, against the Crown for £4200 for 68 acres of land taken by the Public Works Department on the Frankton side of Hamilton Lake, on behalf of the Hamilton Domain Board for recreation 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 the owners proposed would permanently reduce the level of the lake and destroy Hamilton’s chief beauty spot. After hearing evidence for two days, the Court, over which Mr .Tustice Ostler presided, awarded the claimants £1960. i
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3308, 30 March 1926, Page 10
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135COMPENSATION FROM CROWN Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3308, 30 March 1926, Page 10
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