MEAT BOARD AS PLAINTIFF

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1927, Page 9

MEAT BOARD AS PLAINTIFF

FULL COURT DECISION IN WRITING « CAN LONDON LAND BE OWNED? By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. In the Meat Board case before the Full Court, the Bench did not call on Mr. M. Myers, K.C., to reply for the board, the Judges saying they would put their decision in writing. An originating summons under the Declaratory Judgments Act, 1908, was brought by the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board against the AttorneyGeneral and the Controller and AuditorGeneral. The questions for the determination of the qourt were: (1) Whether the expenditure by the p.amtin board of the funds of the board in the acquisition of land in London, or elsewhere. for the purpose of the erection of meat stores and in the erection of such Stores is lawful expenditure by the n’ninfill board of the funds of the board; (2) whether, if the plain tin bon'd has such power, it also has the power to mortgage or charge the land ' tvl ] and all or any of tne plaintiff bird's other assets; (3) generally, vlat are the powers cf the plaintiff I,< 4in regard to the purchase of lands O rd buildings in London, or elsewhere, for the purposes of the board.