COMPENSATION CLAIM
LAND IN WILLIS STREET
The hearing cf evidence was concluded in the Compensation Court yesterday afternoon in the case in- which Sophia Ann Mary Ethel Quinlan claimed £345 compensation from the Wellington City Council for land taken in Willis street, almost opposite the V.M.C.A., for street widening-purposes. On behalf of the City Council, Mr. J. O'Shea (City Solicitor) asked the Court to take into consideration the question of betterment, which, he maintained, would be a large amount in {hat vicinity. The present facilities for traffic were quite unsatisfactory, but when the street was widened by ten feet, a great improvement would bo effected. J£r. O'Shea quoted the price paid in December, 1926, for a section, adjoining the claimant's to show that her frontage was worth £145 a foot, and on that basis the piece taken had a value of £80. That sum had been offered to the claimant, but she had chosen instead to put the City Council to the expense of a Court action. A majority of the Court to-day awarded the claimant £140, inclusive of interest. Mr. Leighton dissented from the award. Each party was ordered to pay its own costs, and the fee of its assessor, twenty guinea?.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19291210.2.92
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1929, Page 12
Word Count
203COMPENSATION CLAIM Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1929, Page 12
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in