SUPREME COURT CASES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 231, 27 October 1903, Page 4

SUPREME COURT CASES.

» NEWING AND HUGHH9 v. HIGH BCHOOL BUARD.'. From Mr 0. Simuel, solicitor for the Board of Governor*, we loam that Mr Justice Edwards has given judgment in this nrittar. it tv iti be remembered that the cases really resolved tlieuise'.v.s into a request, from both parties', for his Honor to inteipret the meaniug of the legislature in the wa-ihi- g-up Act of 1900, by which certain impiovemonts were given to the lessees, Messrs Hugiies and Newing. When the cases wero tried before the Supreme Court ewly this month (Mr Samuel and Mr Myers- appearing for the Board and Dr. Fiudlay and Mr Welsh for Messrs Hughes and Newing), the Judgo reserved judgment aftar argument in Court and in Chambers. The judgment is practically in favour of the Board, viz., that the Board need not eleot whether to grant new leases or pay for improvements until aft6r the rents and value of improvements have been fixed by arbitration; and also that the improvements to be paid for must b9 limited to those nude before the passing of the Act of 1901, by Hughes and Newing themselves, and not those made by the persons from-whom they bought the leases, In thus construing the obscure pro* visions of the Act of the Legislature, no costs are made payable by either side to the other.