COMPENSATION GIVEN
LAND TAKEN BY CROWN SUM OF £11,983 GRANTED (Por Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. For just over 21 acres of land taken by proclamation at Waiwetu, on the Hu It River estuary, for reclamation purposes, the Compensation Court yesterday awarded A 11,983 10s against the Minister of Public Works. The claimants were awarded £125 costs, with disbursements witnesses’ expenses to be settled by the Registrar, and the Crown was ordered to pay each of two assessors £lO5. The case lasted four days and one evening, the claim being for £17.244. The claimants were Alexander Kenneth Scobie Mackenzie and Cheviot Wellington Dillon Bell, solicitors, as registered proprietors, and Mrs. Margaret Sara Johnston, wife of Mr. Justice Johnston, Mrs. Iris Brenda Rolleston, widow. Wellington, temporarily in England, Miss Beatrix Enid Bell, Wellington, temporarily in England, Mrs. Violet Caroline Denniston, Wanganui, and C. W. D. Bell, as beneficial owners.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20120, 14 December 1939, Page 14
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148COMPENSATION GIVEN Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20120, 14 December 1939, Page 14
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