PROPERTY RIGHTS
CONFISCATION OPPOSED STATEMENT BY MINISTER '«P*rUl to TlmM) WELLINGTON. Thursday An assurance tb*f th* Government would never stand Mr anything In the nature of the confiscation of property rights was riven by the Minister of Interna! Affairs, the Hon \V. E. Parry, I g f tile Town Planning Board yesterday. ** Town planning is not understood, largely. I think, through apathy, and partly because It has been misrepresented. sometimes by misguided enthusiasts. and sometime* by vested interests. ’ said the Minister- “ T do know* that many people are afraid of town planning. “ They wrongly see in it either unwarranted Interference with or even the confiscation of property rights, or just another device for thinking up projects on which to expend the ratepayers* money,” said Mr Parry. What had to be done In the public Interest /in the way of purchasing property rights would be done, as in the past, after a full inquiry and the payment of compensation assessed by the Compensation Court.
The Minister said he was afraid the town planning legislation would have to stand over this year.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20508, 26 May 1938, Page 2
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180PROPERTY RIGHTS Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20508, 26 May 1938, Page 2
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