Port Gisborne Ltd v Smiler - [1999] 2 NZLR 695

Public works — Compulsory acquisition of land — Whether land acquired as “waste lands of Crown” to be offered back to successors in title of original owners — Whether land had to be acquired for public work and no longer needed for that or any other public work before offer back to owner or successors in title required — Public Works Act 1981, s 40.