“Py the law of New Zealand every public road, if it is in the country, is vested in the Grown,” eaid Mr. Justice Williams in the Court of Appeal recently.- ‘‘Not only the soil, but the whole thing down to the .centre of the earth. If it is in a borough, it is vested in the borough council.” That, said Iris Honor, being so, if the land: was dedicated as a yublic road,', the effect of the dedication, was not only to divert the dedicant of the surface of tile road, but to vest in- tlurt Crown the absolute fee simple ol tlio whole land. .That being to, life consequence being so serious, Ought nob they in New Zealand to look very much more carefully at evidence of dedication, and seek clearly beforu saying that the land was dedicated as' a public road that it was the intention of the dedicator to divest himself of the fee simple of the whole land? His Honor remarked that ho did not think that tliis question had ever been raised in, New
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2329, 23 October 1908, Page 5
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