LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 281, 19 April 1913, Page 5

LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR.

~7;;!/»WA b W, FOR RATfiS. " ' Uitmm '• - By Press Association. - .• ' •' j'ts vl:;; 'r ijunedin, Last Night. ■ Thp, iydgpeni oOlr. Justice William# ' ' in th# : q««.,o{ Town Board aiiS ' '. ,Bistiqp, ( japd': , oU>er'6 was delivered ' to-day, 'j. Xge <main points of the easeare ■ • that Bqy i Town. Board local authority 'sue(}-tTC» ladies who are nuns of the • . or(1 F 9f .the Little Sisters of the, Poor. • The defendants are tie owners att<J occu for aged persons.' The T?oa j r4.sue4; for £3B tis Bd, alleged, to be • due. for rates: Defendants claiftrtrf'that : J 1 as it.:comes within paragraphs- (J) hM : (j) ,of|'the exemptions from rating, contained, in section 2 of the Rating Act, • ' judge-set out* tne fact that a large num~ * 1 ber lof inmates received pensions; wllich ''■ were paid inter/the institution. Tfo} jtfdg- - ~ ' meift .proceeded: "In order thtfi; the in- ■ stitution may f ,cpme the e'xettfp-; ,* t t.i°n it is essential that the. institution; •'' be. carried on for the frW main-" tenaiwe-Of the aged.. The institution 1 cannot be said to be carried on for the free maintenance of the ;*g«sd if a numberJof its inmates paytbe jnstitu(;iQn itt part! for their maintenance." He thought therefore, that the institution' is jiot ex- " ' * einpted from the rates under the para- " pragli.lt was contended further that ' the institution came within paragraph (I) as being a hospital. This, however ' ■ ; the judge did not allow. In conclusion, » -' t ic'judge stated: «I'think, therefore,. that the plaintiff is entitled to iu.lgmtftfc. /• I should have been glad to have been v ' able to come to a. different conclusion, : and the beneficent work they ore carvying 011." :