A TALL ORDER
CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION. By Telegraph.—Pres« Association Dunedin, Last Night. A claim for £11,200 was made on tht. Otago School Commissioners tc day by Patrick Maher, a well-known resident of Wendonaide, who contends that he has suffered monetary loss through' the commissioners not leasing to him an area of land on run 32C, which he applied for in 1890. The claim was made up as follows: Loss of 320 acres at £1 per acre, from 1900 to 1914, £4480; from 1914 to 1928, at £1 15s per acre, £6720. His offer, he said, was about 6s 3d per acre, as against the present rental of under 2d per acre. He asked the commissioners to request that a Royal Commission be set up to enquire into the administration of the commissioners during their whole term of office generally, and into his claim especially. The letter was minuted as ''received."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 265, 18 March 1911, Page 5
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150A TALL ORDER Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 265, 18 March 1911, Page 5
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