CONSTITUTIONAL DIFFICULTY.
PALMER NORTH ASSESSMENT
COURT.
[BY . TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION'.]
Paljiebston North, Wednesday. Owing to a constitutional difficulty a sitting of the Assessment Court, which was to have been held to-day, was adjourned,
It appeared that Mr. W. Stubbs, the assessor appointed by the Kairanga County' Council, on its behalf, was a member of the Palmerston Borough Council, and was consequently ineligible to occupy a - seat-on the Bench.
The position was explained by Mr. Thomson, S.M., president of the Court, and the sitting was adjourned to June 8. In the meantime- a fresh appointment will be made iby the Kairanga County Council.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13451, 30 May 1907, Page 5
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