Cook County Council v Attorney-General - [1978] 1 NZLR 777

Public works — Road — Validity of notice closing road — Misdescription of land in text of proclamation — Land correctly delineated in plan referred to in proclamation — Whether mistake in text cured by plan — Public Works Act 1928, s 29.

Public works — Land acquired from Maoris for roading — Part of road closed because local authority intended using that area as a public reserve — After road closed Land Settlement Board applied to Maori Land Court for land to be vested in former Maori owners — Power of board to dispose of land — Maori Affairs Act 1953, s 436.