TAUPO TIMBER RIGHTS
LEGAL POINTS RAISED • • ; \y> EFFECT OF AGREEMENT (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Judgment was reserved jn the Supreme Court by the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, on two questions of law raised preliminary to the hearing of a case relating to timber rights in the Taupo district. The suit is one in which William Allan Chappie, of London, now temporarily resident in Wellington, a doctor of medicine and formerly a member of the British House of Commons, is claiming certain declarations against the Tongariro Timber Company, Limited, and the Aotea District Maori Land Board concerning certain timber rights in the Taupo district. The first point related to the effect of a proviso in an agreement between the company and the board limiting the operation of a certain clause affecting royalties amounting to £25,000, in the light of the war-time •moratorium Acts, which were ultimately repealed in 1929. The second question was whether the board was prevented by the terms of the agreement from setting off against the plaintiff any cross claim it might have agafinst the company.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18579, 13 December 1934, Page 5
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181TAUPO TIMBER RIGHTS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18579, 13 December 1934, Page 5
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