A COALMINING CASE.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12727, 20 December 1909, Page 2

A COALMINING CASE.

AN APPEAL FROM A WARDEN'S - ; DECISION. ■■;

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■■-■-•■-: Westport, Dec 18. In the Supreme Court was heard today the, coal mining case in which J. W. Mason appealed from the judgment of Warden Rawson, that pegging is* necessary- before the filing of an-ap-plication for a lease of what is known as the Cook's coal lease, Mr Hannan for the AYestport Goal Company, the objectors, and he raised a preliminary point that, there # was no provision under the Goal Mines Act for an appeal from the Warden's decision.; He admitted that tho Legis • latere intended to make provision but' faii'ed'tb supply the machinery. - His Honour, Mr Justice Cooper, re-: served' judgment on the point, also_ on the, main question whether pegging was necessary before the filing of an application. .