LANDOWNER GETS £80

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1052, 16 August 1930, Page 16

LANDOWNER GETS £BO

COMPENSATION FOR LANn TAKEN NEW LYNN COUNCIL PAT S -\ n award of £BO compensation*, made by the Compensation Court terday afternoon to Henry Grei. New Lynn, on his claim again2\s K New Lynn Borough Council for a sewer through the property - The claimant was awarded 'fta strip of land taken for the of the sewer, and £55 for and injurious affection of the?? ance of the land. The court* conditions that a fencing coven*’’ 1 ' confirming to the claimant the ri J to require fencing of the strin land, must be prepared at the cil s cost, and that within six the council must cover the sewer ' cut down the manholes. r *** The court consisted of Mr Tnr, Smith, with Sir Walter Stringer . Mr. H. K. Vaile as assessors According to Mr. Fleming who peared for the claimant, the arose out of the construction ot sewer through Green’3 property s! | the council, over lOoft of the in' ' being left above the ground y big manholes had been also left r i compensation claimed was for k [ strip of land that the council i ' taken along the line of the drain for the severance of the balance « the property by this action For the council, Mr. Haddow r~ tended that the compensation had t be confined to the actual loss «r.° fered, and for the purpose of asscT ment the court would have to cosider the condition of the land £ 1928. He submitted that the tW ant could not be allowed to profit h» the transaction. lit delivering its judgment, a, court ordered the council to pay £;• toward the claimant's costs, wf. nesses’ expenses, and assessors’ fee; which were fixed at £l2 12s eacti