HUGE LAND CLAIM
AREA FOR FLAX GROWING COMPENSATION COURT HEARING (Peb United Press Association; PALMERSTON N.. Sept. 10. A special sitting of the Compensation Court began the hearing of a claim for nearly £120.000 as the price of 4565 acres of land at Moutoa (Foxton) owned by F. S. Easton, the area having been taken by the Crown under the Public Works Act to be used for flaxgrowing as supply for the woolpack and textile industry. Mr Justice Smith is presiding, witji Mr I M. F. Bourke and Mr W. R. Birnie as assessors. The hearing is unfinished.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24400, 11 September 1940, Page 6
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98HUGE LAND CLAIM Otago Daily Times, Issue 24400, 11 September 1940, Page 6
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