NOT LIABLE FOR RATES
BEQUEST FOR EDUCATION. PULL COURT’S DECISION. By Telegraph. —Press Association. WELLINGTON, Friday. The Full Court gave judgment this morning in the case of the Public Trustee v. the Waipawa Council, in which the Court was asked to determine whether the realty in the estate of Josiah Howard, who left all his property for the purposes of education, was liable for rates under the Rating Act, 1908. Mr Justice Adams delivered the judgment of the Court, in the course of which he said the power of a county council to levy rates did not apply to properly vested in His Majesty, even though it was held by the Public Trustee. The Howard estate, he said, belonged to and the equitable interest was vested in the Crown. The property, he concluded, was also exempt from rates. The answer to the question asked was, therefore, that the realty in the estate was not liable for rates. No order was made as to costs. The case was heard on July 20.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14713, 30 July 1921, Page 5
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171NOT LIABLE FOR RATES Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14713, 30 July 1921, Page 5
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