Railway development

Projected lines, surveys, construction, betterments, etc.

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Toronto Union Station.—The Board of Railway Commissioners has issued an interim order respecting the Toronto esplanade and the Union Station matter, authorizing the expropriation of all the land asked for, compensation to be fixed as of the date of the first application to take any particular piece of land, and interest thereon at tic rate of 5%. No instructions will be issued to the arbitrators as to compensation for business losses, this being left an open question. It was on this question that there was a difference of opinion between Deputy Chief Commissioner Bernier and Commissioner Mills. The Chief Commissioner agrees with the latter that the Board had power to authorize the arbitrator to provide for business losses, if it were disposed to do so; but held with the former that it was not expedient to make any order to the arbitrators regarding the awarding of compensation.

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