EXEMPTION FROM RATES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10116, 11 October 1910, Page 5

EXEMPTION FROM RATES.

WELLINGTON, Last Night. In .the appeal case Christchurch City Council v. Boland and another, Mr. Harper, for the appellants, contended that, as was decided in the •Supreme Court, in the case of O'Meara v. the Feilding Borough Council, where the facts were similar, a building before exemption could be claimed must be "used exclusively" for, and not "carried on" exclusively for, pecuniary gain cr profit, and Jksj*iie fact that persons not scholars m.. received musical tuition in the building prevented the exemption section Applying. He therefore submitted "that the rates were properly levied. Mr. Skerrett, for the respondents, submitted that the place was a school, and the fact that others than ordinary scholars received musical tuition did not alter its character. Music was a part of the ordinary curriculum.of an institution, and was ••an educational subject. The building was not used for teaching subjects ■outside the curriculum. Th?se persons were under the discipline of teachers, and were pupils cf the school, although separate from other ■scholars. Judgment was reserved.