Tauhara Properties Ltd v Mercantile Developments Ltd - [1974] 1 NZLR 584

Sale of land — Land settlement promotion — Extension of time for consent to option for sale of farm land invalidly granted ex parte to purchaser — Land Settlement Promotion and Land Acquisition Act 1952, s 25.

Courts — Special committees — Land Valuation Committee — Right of appeal from grant or refusal of extension of time — Certiorari not normal remedy as order already in the Court and committee a delegate of the Administrative Division — Land Valuation Proceedings Act 1948, s 26.

Administrative law — Natural justice — Land Valuation Committee's power to lay down its own procedure does not exclude natural justice — Land Valuation Proceedings Act 1948, s 19(10).