No Rates For Fourteen Years
(P.A.) AUCKLAND. This Day.;a A man and wife who had refused !o; I = pay rates for 14 years were ordered by a IMr Justice Fair, in a Supreme Court judg-| iment today, to deliver up possession cf a]t house property at Otahuhu within 14jC • days. Plaintiff was a retired farmer, it Gcoig'e E. G. Morley. and defendantsic were Archibald Richard Evans, painter,] Ctahuhu, and Louisa May Evans, who didil nci appear. i j J ] Counsel for plaintiff (Mr Gocdr.ll] saklp ! that rates amounte d to £6 to £8 annu-p all\ due to the Manukau County Council.jj The house had been purchased by plaint iff j • ;when a local authority, after unavailing U !at tempts to secure payment for rates, | j eventually sold the property at auction I. through the Registrar for the Supreme j ; Court. Arrears of rates then totalled! i £ll6. Plaintiff made repeated attempts] j from the end of May onwards for posses-.] jsicn !/ut without success.
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Northern Advocate, 24 August 1943, Page 3
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164No Rates For Fourteen Years Northern Advocate, 24 August 1943, Page 3
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