COMPENSATION COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 220, 26 September 1901, Page 2

COMPENSATION COURT.

THE KOREBT GATE BBTATB. PKH 7UESS ASSOCIATION. " Napikk, September $6, At tbe Comp-wsation Court to-day, attbe oopclu«iim of thp Kumera rrafea cas<>, the' claim of the trurt*aa foiwetGat« property was haard.,'lsl waa a claim for land taken andetf tlf Land for Act, at tha .-aits of £6 15s 9d per acre. Tha GotMP mend offered £8 J7a. Bd, .tha Mai amounts in eaoh e*ae being .oakabr owing to » doabt as to tbe rx-.ct acreage. The que*>tal of fwftjwill t». aattwd b«J;we«k tka parties'after a fresh sumy haß teat made. It fcsd been know* that tha property consisted of between §6QQ and acne, and the claim waa bated on $,777 acr#s. It i$ ifofcr atfe'ad, however, that the correct average ia exclusive of r.w's and of a block of 39 acres towbioh the H«>rrick family had no ■ ight iicept that Of orrcdpieiit. Tbe point at issue wad the valoe of tha land, and the to'*) amount of the award would be in accordance with the ascertain) d acnttage. Oou> gel for claimants ' quoted from the Parliamentary debate !<>n the Porast Git» prop ry, in which the Premiersiid th it tbe Government was prepared to give the prioe tha triwfres offered tbe land at (£4 ifia), and then they altered their minds and asked to withdraw it, Counsel lor tha ® Government said that waa not evident, and the Premier had do authority to make any offer binding on the colony,