ARREARS OF PENALTIES
COUNCIL LOSES CASE,
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WELLINGTON. This Day,
Deciding that a mortgagee was not liable for the penal addition to rates unless he failed to pay the original amount of rates within six months and 14 days after the demand had been made upon him. Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., yesterday gave judgment against the Eastbourne Borough Council, who sued the Rangitikei Permanent Land Building and Investment Society for arrears of penalties. The occupier had defaulted in the payment: of rates for over three years, and the defendant society, on demand, paid the rates, but declined to pay the penalties, claiming that it had complied within the statutory period of the demand made to it.
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Northern Advocate, 19 July 1935, Page 11
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