Oamaru Harbor Board.
«, — . — A RECEIVER APPOINTED. [feb fbmss association.] Ddnedin, April 6. The (Petition of Mr Beckwith Smith, of London, a debenture holder under the Oamaru Harbor Board's £100,000 loan of 1879, asking that a Receiver be appointed to receive the rents, rates, dues and tolls of the Board, was brought before Mr Justice | Williams in Chambers to-day. The petition alleged that there appeared to be now £12,000 due to the bondholders as interest. Mr Woodhouse appeared in support of the petition, the Hon. Mr Macgregor on behalf of the Board, and Mr Haggett to watch the interests of the Post Office Department, which holds bonds to the amount of £62,000 in refepect of other loans. After argument, His Honor made an order appointing the trustees executors and the Agency Company of New Zealand to act as Receiver. The order is to be drawn up and settled on Tuesday next.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 282, 7 April 1894, Page 2
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150Oamaru Harbor Board. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 282, 7 April 1894, Page 2
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