THE DISPUTED ENDOWMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14492, 5 October 1910, Page 8

THE DISPUTED ENDOWMENT.

__ COURT RESERVES DECISION. [BY TELEGRAPH. — CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Tuesday. The hearing of the case affecting a valuable Auckland endowment was continued in the Court of Appeal to-day. Mr. H. P. Richmond, who appeared for the Auckland Grammar School Board, claimed that the revenues were to be apportioned: three-quarters to primary schools and one-quarter to the secondary schools of Auckland province. Mr. C. P. Skerrett, K.C., followed on behalf of the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. He contended that the reserve was was an educational receive, but Parliament should decide who shpuld participate in the trust. He would be sorry to see either the Education Board or the Government get the money. If the matter went to Parliament, Auckland local bodies would no doubt combine and come to some satisfactory arrangement, and ask for legislation to benefit all Parties. He contended that the Auckland Education Board had. no right, title or interest in. the profits from the land, and that the Court must so decide. Even if this contention was wrong and the true construction was that the land was an educational reserve to be administered in accordance with the Act of 1872, still the Auckland Education Board had under no circumstances any claim, for it was neither the same body nor the successor of the board created under the Act of 1872. Mr. McVeagh followed Mr. Skerrett on behalf of the Hospital Board.. Mr. Reed replied for the Education Board. The Court reserved its decision.