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held that this risk ought not to be taken into consideration by 

 the arbitrator because the Legislature by incorporating Sections 

 77 and 78 of the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, in 

 the Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908. had enabled the 

 council to require at any time that the minerals shall l)e left 

 unworked on payment of further compensation. The com- 

 pensation to the landowner was therefore the "value of the 

 surface of the land calculated as if there were no minerals to 

 l)e worked beneath it and therefore no risk of subsidence. 



Two celebrated cases under the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, 

 remain to be noticed. In D)json v. Attorney-General (28 

 Times L.R.. 72) it was held that a form issued by the Inland 

 Revenue Commissioners which re(][uires /'titer alia a person 

 who is the owner and occupier of land to state the annual 

 value of such land is not warranted by Section 26, Suli- 

 section 2, of the Act, and the insertion of that requirement 

 in the form served invalidates the whole form. In Burghes v. 

 .4 ttorney-General (28 Times L.R., 72) it was held that the powers 

 of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, under Section 31, 

 Sub-section 1 of the Act, to require persons paying or receiving 

 rent of land to furnish the names and addresses of persons to 

 whom they pay rent or on liehalf of whom they receive rent, 

 as the case may lie, are confined to requiring infcrniation in 

 reference to particular parcels of land specified by the Commis- 

 sioners. A general inquiry is unauthorised. The same cases 

 also decided that a form requiring information to be given under 

 penalty within less than thirty days from the service of the 

 notice is invalid. 



Aubrey J. Spencer. 



1.T Old Square, 



Lincoln's Inn, W.C. 



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FORECASTING WEATHER. 



BOOK on Weather Forecasting by no less eminent an authority 

 ••han the Director of the Meteorological Office, deserves, and will 

 prol)ably receive, a cordial reception at the hands of the public. 

 Within recent years much has been done in the w^ay of 

 familiarising the ordinary unscientific individual with the prin- 

 ciples of modern Aveather knowledge. At a large and increasing 

 number of public and secondary schools the subject has been 

 added to the ordinary curj-iouluni, the interest of the pupils 

 l»eing stimulated by actual practice in the taking of meteor- 

 o logical observat ions. By popular lectures and by newspaper 



' By Dr. W. N. Shaw, F.R.S.. Sc.D., Director of the Meteorologrical Office 

 {('irimtahle S,- Co'). 



