RAILWAY SORTING CHARGES.
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Finality has boon reached at last in the long-drawn-out litigation relative to railway sorting charges. Back in 1018 proceedings were launched to test the validity of the imposition of a charge by the Railway Department on goods handled on the wharves, hut the ease did not come on for hearing by the Supreme Court until the following year. Xol content with the judgment of that Court, Messrs Hetrick and Co., of W'anganui. with whom (•(her merchants were associated, took the ease lirsl to the Appeal Court and (hence I<> tin* Privy Council. That tribunal which is the highest Court of' Appeal in the Empire, gave its decision against the
Government some months ago, since. when negotiations for a settlement in terms of the Privy Council's judgment have been in progress. Messrs llatriek and Co. have now received advice that the Government had agreed to rebate all sorting charges levied up to the day on which the decision of the Privy Council was announced.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2616, 7 August 1923, Page 2
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169RAILWAY SORTING CHARGES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2616, 7 August 1923, Page 2
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