MR. W. T. JENNINGS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 223, 20 March 1914, Page 4

MR. W. T. JENNINGS.

WAITABA HARBv,;: ~'jAKD CASE'

SETTLEP AT A dispute which has been the cause of numerous stormy meetings of the Waitar* Harbor Board was finally settle* on Wednesday by the reading bv the Registrar 1 of the Sunreme Court of resrved Judgment of Mr Justice Edward, m the case in which the Crow,, applied w t T° rd^ r of the Court "lievißff Mr W.T.Jennings of his seat on the Board, and for cost* against him. The order Mr r h & an * ted ' and coßtß an °™4rw .> £" t<m beared for ,4m h.7f IF Fib ? b A - G - J «ni»g» on bewho.had conducted his own .« rtfi Mr TO We f £t^T' February w ' Cowt ln STEM'S*'? *r r tL B ,T rea taa further of that t^uSSMStSA do. As his name was not on ThT. n atthetimeofhisappoiStLSltMS Weston, it was clear"that Mr JemW reappointment had been * the present application. MTJeMiE! would urge that he to pay the costs of the action, bita" he had, in spite of warnings, refused to vacate his seat, it was clew that the costs should be paid by him. Mr Jennings' defence wap that at tb* •""i ot Jl* *P DOl ntnient he held Jud m tte Clifton County, and the abe See of hie name from the roll was a mere s omission! and that if he had resigned fcU seat it would have caused a deadlock \tt>A the business of the Board. The faet that he had been reappointed when he '•* m not legally qualified was the fe«H of a departmental error, and he subn*. ;ted that on this account he oughMpL to be made liable for costs. " 115" ' The decision of Mr Justice Edwardi was that an order must be made la favor of the Crown, and that costs (HO) and necessary disbursement* must be allowed against Mr Jenninge. If h* had resigned when his attention was (■first v drawn to the matter, the Jndf» was of oninion that no costs ehouldW allowed against him, bat as he sat oa \ the Board five times after beinjr notf- * fled that his reappointment was illegal, costs must be allowed. The whole trouble was caused bv a department*! , blunder. ,