THE FLAXBOURNE ESTATE.
BLENHEIM, December 5. In the Flaxbourne compensation case 10 witnesses h?,ve been examined on the question of classification, and the evidence in. I this branch of the case was concluded today. To-morrow morning it will be decided whether it is necessary for the court to visifi Flaxbourne (some 30 miles from Blenheim} to view tho ground before classifying the> property into first class, second class, and! third olass areas. In the discussion to-dayi the judge said that no case yet heard under, the Lands for Settlement Act presented suobJ difficulties in the matter of classification. It was remarked that the estate was as big as the combined areas of two counties in tha United Kingdom, and as largo as 6ome» - counties singly, and it comprised greati tracks of country of different classes closely allied.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2647, 7 December 1904, Page 33
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