CROWN LEASES.
AND ROYALTY ON GRAVEL. (Per Press Association.) .NEW PLYAIOUTH, March 24. A judgment of importance to West Coast lessees was delivered in the Magistrate's Court in a case Public Trustee v. Charles Andrews, a claim for £32 13s 6d, royalty paid to defendant for stone taken from laud leased from the Public Trustee. The Magistrate held that stone is reserved to the Trustee as part of the soil in the lease, and that the royalty, 3d per yard, was received on behalf of the Trustee. He assessed the value of the stone in the river at onethird and the surface damages at twothirds, and therefore gave judgment for the Public Trustee for one-third of the costs £5 2s. An appeal may be lodged.
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Timaru Herald, Volume C, Issue 15304, 25 March 1914, Page 7
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125CROWN LEASES. Timaru Herald, Volume C, Issue 15304, 25 March 1914, Page 7
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