IMPORTANT JUDGMENT
CROWN’S EXEMPTION FROM RATES. CASE DECIDED BY COURT OF APPEAL. [ Par Pres* Association.] WELLINGTON, April 29. The judgment of the Cout of Appeal was delivered to-day in the case of the Auckland City Corporation v. Max Paykel Building, Ltd. Exemption from general rates was claimed in respect of the seventh floor of the defendant company’s building in Anzac Avenue, Auckland, because it was tenanted by the Department of Agriculture. Action was taken by the corporation to recover these rates, amounting to £25 4s 2d, and by consent the question of law was ordered to be argued and removed into the Court of Appeal. In his judgment delivered this morning the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) held that the defendant company, as owner of the land and that portion of the building thereon in respect of which plaintiff claimed general rates, was exempt -om payment thereof by reason of its i'll pat ion by His Majesty the King '.rough the Department of Agriculure.
In a separate judgment Mr. Justice Callan answered the question in the same manner.
Mr. Justice Northcroft agreed with the other judgments.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 100, 30 April 1938, Page 9
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186IMPORTANT JUDGMENT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 100, 30 April 1938, Page 9
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