COURT OF APPEAL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8943, 8 October 1907, Page 2

COURT OF APPEAL.

Per Press Association. Welt.xnoton, October 8. The first case bcofra tho Appeal Court is Fitchctt and another v. the Mayor of Wellington. This involved a now point of interest to all corpora tioua who find their own water supply. Wellington City took 303 acres by proclamation near Karon dam, for which some £33,000 emuneusatiou was claimed. Section 30a of the Municipal Corporations Act forbids the fouling of any water or watershed by allowing drainage to flow into it. and tho corporation claimed that in face of this the laud taken could not bo valued on the basis of building or even dairy laud, both of which would foul water, but only as rural sheep farming land. 1 It is this point which is to bo settled by argument before the Court.