THE OTEKAIKE CASE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9117, 9 April 1908, Page 5

THE OTEKAIKE CASE.

Press Association. Wellington, April 9. In the Appeal Court Mr Hosting, in reply, contended that by .Sections 2 and 76 of the Land Laws Amendment Act 1907, the Land Act 1892 was expressly incorporated and therefore the provisions of Section 48 of the latter Act which made the decision of the Board final, applied. Further, even if that had not been so the Board, being an existing tribunal when new jurisdiction was conferred on it by the Land for Settlement Act, it would exercise that jurisdiction with all inherent powers conferred on it by the Land Act 1892. The date of the grant created no difficulty for that was fixed by regulation 2 of the regulations made under the Act which, by virtue of Section 4of the Land Act 1892, had statutory validity. Argument in the Appeal Court in the Otekaike has concluded, and the Court has reserved judgment.