RATEPAYER’S ACTION

Evening Star, Issue 22447, 18 September 1936, Page 9

RATEPAYER’S ACTION

OPPOSITION TO FIRE BOARD LOAN APPEAL COURT NEARING I Fes United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, September 18.. In a Supreme Court action at Gisborne in April Herbert Victor Lunken, as a ratepayer of the Borough of Gisborne, brought an action against the Gisborne Fire Board and members of the Local Bodies’ Loans Board to set aside the Loans Boards’ decision sanctioning the raising of a loan by the Gisborne Fire Board, prohibiting the Fire Board from acting on that decision, and preventing the Fire Board from raising and spending money in pursuance of the loan proposals. During the hearing of the case the Loans Board was called on to produce for inspection certain documents, but this was objected to on the ground that the Minister of Finance had instructed that the document? were privileged. . . His Honour the Acting Chief Justice, however, made an order for the inspection of the documents with the proviso that, if after inspection by him, any were found to be detrimental to the public service, a supplementary order withdrawing these from inspection would be made. The Appeal Court to-day i? hearing an appeal against this decision by the Loans Board.