DUNEDIN NEWS
OBITUARY. _ , [(Per Press Association)': Dunedin, last night. Mr James P. Maitland, for many ycat *** Commissioner of Lands in Otago, died this evening, after a prolonged illness. COMPENSATION CLAIM.
A case came before tho Compensation Court, in which Mrs McQuinniss, widow, claimed £IOO compensation from tho Minister of Mines for pollution of the Frasor river, and £4OO for prospective damage by declaring the river a sludge channel. The Court awarded £9O, and as the amount was less than ono-half of tho claim, each party was ordered to pay its own costs.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 509, 23 August 1902, Page 3
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