COMPENSATION CLAIMED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19744, 17 September 1927, Page 12

COMPENSATION CLAIMED.

WATER CATCHMENT AREA. CAMBRIDGE BOROUGH SCHEME. [BY telegraph.—own correspondent.] CAMBRIDGE, Friday. A claim for compensation to the amount of £5466 ,10s , from Auckland solicitors on behalf of Messrs. C. R. and C. M. Dean, farmers, of Maungatautari, was received at the meeting of the Cambridge Borough Council last evening. Details of the claim are:~ Severance of land, including loss of facility for subdivision, loss, access and inconvenience in working, £1750; loss of water, £3000; loss of shelter and privacy, £450; loss of land, 11 acres, £256 10s. The claim is a sequel to extended negotiations between the two parties, dating back to September, 1926, when the council, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, took four and a-half acres, for a catchment area round Bprings for the Maungatautari gravitation water supply scheme, which is now completed and is supplying the borough and district en route.

Prior to taking land by the proclamation the council offered the owners £SOO for it, but this was refused, and although negotiations had been in progress since no finality was reached. The Mayor, Mr. T. F. Richards, said the council had already received a writ, and as the claim should be rejected in its present form it would probably be the basis of a Supreme Court action. Further consideration was deferred.