LAND ACQUISITION
CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION AWARD MADE AGAINST CROWN £11,983 FOR 21 ACRES (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Wednesday For just over 21 acres of land taken by proclamation at Waiwhetu, on the Hutt River estuary, for reclamation purposes, the Compensation Court today awarded £11,983, against the Minister of Public Works. The claimants were also awarded £125 costs, with disbursements and witnesses’ expenses to be settled by the registrar, and the Crown was ordered to pay each of the two assessors £lO5. The hearing lasted for four days. The claim was for £17,244, the claimants being Alexander Kenneth Scobie Mackenzie and Cheviot Wellington Dillon Bell, solicitors, as registered proprietors, and Mrs Margaret Sara Johnston, wife of Mi Justice Johnston, Mrs Iris Brenda Rolleston, widow, of Wellington (temporarily in England), Miss Beatrix Enid Bell, of Wellington (temporarily in England), Mrs Violet Caroline Denniston, of Wanganui, and C. W. D. Bell, as beneficial owners.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20987, 14 December 1939, Page 16
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151LAND ACQUISITION Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20987, 14 December 1939, Page 16
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