GISBORNE HARBOUR WORKS

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12323, 18 December 1925, Page 6

GISBORNE HARBOUR WORKS

DECLARATORY JUDGMENT SOUGHT EXPENDITURE OF BORROWED MONEY. ! Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, and Mr Justice Alpers, sitting in the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon, heard an application by the Gisborne Harbour Board under the Declaratory Judgments Act to determine (1) whether under the provisions of the Gisborne Harbour Board Enabling Act, 1919, the plaintiff board has power, in the course of the construction of an outer harbour at the port of Poverty Bay and as part of or incidental to such outer harbour, to provide and develop further wharfage, berthage, and harbour accommodation uuon the area indicated in an attached plan; (2) whether, assuming the answer to the first question to he in the affirmative, the plaintiff hoard has power -to extend paTt of moneys borrowed under the provisions of the Gisborne Harbour Board Enabling Act, 1919, in the acquisition of ' land and the construction work necessary to carry out the works referred to in the first question; and for an order generally defining the rights and liabilities of the plaintiff board. Mr M. Myers, K.C., with him Mr H. D. Chrisp, appeared for the Gisborne Harbour Board, and Mr A. E. Currie, of the Crown Law Office, appeared for the Attorney-General. Decision was reserved.