QUESTION OF RATING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2143, 24 June 1920, Page 3

QUESTION OF RATING.

ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL PROi'HRTY. Action was taken by Ihc Hull Coin:! y Council, for which Mr T. H’s’op, junr., appeared, at the M ellingtv.ni Magis! rate’s Court yesterday, to recover fivui Sister Alary Doyle, represented, by Mr 0. Watson, rates a mourning to £BB lbs m respect of ■ properly al Xai Xai used as a playing area, and garden for the growing of vegetables for Ihe children at the school and home erected on the property by the Roman Catholic Church. Hvidenee was heard

in the morning. When the Coin'! resmned aft or (lie luncheon adjournment, counsel for the plaintiff board asked that thraelion should, be withdrawn, as it was merely brought for the purpose of allaying any suspicions among the resident- of the Hull district that the institution was being wrongly allowed to escape taxation for which the property might he liable. The parlies asked that the Court should give a ruling upon the (|ucsti»n.

The .Magistrate, Mr \V. (1. lliddell, held that the evidence called for the defence clearly established that the institution was conducted as a •■chooi, ami was not run “exelusij-elv for profit." tail for I tie tienetif of children whose parents were in poor •ireiiiiislanees. .Judgment was given for the defendant. —Post.