PUBLIC PURSE “BUFFER”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 331, 17 April 1928, Page 1

PUBLIC PURSE “BUFFER”

MR. E. BOLD’S SERVICE PURCHASE OFFICER RETIRING After acting as “buffer” between deprived landowners and the public purse for more than 22 years, Mr. E. Bold, senior land - purchase officer for the Public Works Department, will retire on June 1. Mr. Bold's activities have embraced settlements for land required for railways, roads, public buildings, scenery preservation, afforestation, irrigation, hydro-electric schernes, harbour and other marine works; defence, rifle range and airdrome sites; land drainage and river protection works; as well as lands for settlement. Of all the differences of opinion which have arisen in the course of Mr. Bold’s experience, there have been less

than 30 in which the assistance of a Compensation Court has had to be invoked, and half of these were for 6’aim« a: ' !r.g out of the construction of - ioi« than 700 miles of railway. The • xtensive claims, amounting to more chan £250.000. for land taken for the Auck'or- . new railway station and ye s were all brought to an amicable ottlement fr a litle over £IOO,OOO. louring a r* nt visit to the Old Country Mr. Bold closely investigated the amended practice for assessing compensation in respect of laitd acquired