LOCAL BODIES’ RATES.
AN IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, last night. A judgment of importance to local bodies regarding rate notices was given on appeal at the Supreme Court to-day. The appeal was based on two grounds. First, that the form of demand was insufficient ill that it did not state how the appellant was liable or where the rate was’payable; and, second, that appellant as the holder of Crown lands under a grazing right was not an occupier within the meaning of the Rating Act. His Honor allowed the appeal' holding that the essentials required by the. Rating Act, 1894, must be contained i„ a note. In the second ground lie inclined to the opinion that the Amending Act; which defined certain licenses, would exclude the others. If the word “license” brought the liability for rates, why did 'not timber and gumdigging rights come under the original Act under the names of the licensees. j
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2128, 10 July 1907, Page 1
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