Recovery of Rates.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43113, 13 July 1907, Page 2

Recovery of Rates.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day.

A case of considerable importance to local bodies was decided at the Supreme Court last Wednesday, when Judge Button upheld the appeal of Jury against the Omata Road Board. This was an appeal from the decision of Mr W. G. Riddell, stipendiary magistrate, at New Plymouth, who had given judgment for the Road Board in a claim for payment of rates. The appeal was based on two grounds : Firstly, that the form of the demand was insufficient for two reasons —(a) it did not state how appellant was liable, and (b) that it did not state where the rate was payable: and secondly, that appellant as the lioldor of Crown land under a grazing right, was not the occupier within the meaning of the Act. His Honor, in a lengthy decision, upheld the appeal on both grounds, with £5 5s costs of action in the lower Court, and the fees of this Court.