DUCK CREEK FLAT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 420, 31 July 1928, Page 14

DUCK CREEK FLAT

USE AS BOAT-HARBOfIt ASSESSMENT DIFFICULTIES “I think myself that the only possible use that could be made of this tidal flat for such a short term wocld be some sort of boat harbour, aD«. doubt if any one would buy the \ma for that. If it had been left to ba I should have fixed the value of the company’s leasehold L say £ 100, not perhaps because It * worth even that, but because I shoihave to fix some value for itWhen making this announcement * yesterday’s sitting of the Asse**® Court in Auckland in connection vithe protracted litigation between ** Colonial Sugar Refining Company the Valuation Department, in re*F'of the valuation of an area of 22 icr** known as Duck Creek, adjacent to £* Chelsea sugar works, Mr. J. J Hewitt, S.M., president, said the as*** sors him to say that they ** arrived at their decision on the priori pies he had enunciated. When the case again came belc* the Court yesterday, Mr. Hewitt pressed his complete dißß|T*®* with the attitude of the two asae**** Mr. E. Allen, representing the Vi tion Department, and Mr. J- . Phail, representing the borol }*V, 7 Birkenhead, both of whom relit. sanction any substantial decree*the leasehold value of the The Court retired to con ® d \L position. On its resuming . dent stated it had been decro«° company’s interest as lessee , improved value should be red £1,500 and the owner’s interest £ 3,775 to £ 3,400.