APPEAL COURT.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXII, Issue 12437, 9 April 1908, Page 7

APPEAL COURT.

The Otekaike Case.

(Per United Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, April 9.

At the Appeal Court Mr Hosking, in reply, contended that by sections 2 and 76 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1907, the Land Act of 1892 was expressly incorporated, and therefore the provisions of section 48 of the latter Act, which made the decision of the Board final, applied. And further, even if that had not been so. the Board, being the existing tribunal when the new jurisdiction was conferred on it by the Land for Settlements Ac^, it would exercise that jurisdiction with all the inherent powers conferred on it by the Land Act, 1892. The date of the grant created no difficulty, for that was fixed by regulation 2 of the regulations made under the Act, which by virtue of section 4 of the Land Act, 1892, had statutory validity.

WELLINGTON, April 9.

Argument in the Appeal Court in the Otekaike case has been concluded, and the Court reserved its judgment.