Road Board Fined.
Bay Of Plenty Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 5016, 18 February 1907, Page 2
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Road Board Fined.
The Feilding Star of February 11 states that it is not often a local be>dy is called upon to defend an action for allowing noxious Ｓ to flourish in its district, but :in instance has occurred in Marlborough, where th_ Pelorus Road Board was sued by the Government Inspector, under the Noxious Weeds Act, for allowing blackberry and sweet briar -to grow on the river banks, after receiving notice to clear the weeds away. The Board contended that as they had been denied the right to lease the cutting of flax o,i the lands in question, they had no jm isdiction there, 4Pnd were viol liable. The-. magistrate., held that the Board was the occupier of the strip of reserve along the bank of the river which adjoined the road, an 1 a*, the Act provided that where land abuts on a road the boundaries ol the lai.ei on each side of tho r-md shall lor the purposes of the Act relating to lie clearing of noxious weeds 1° dc-tr,ed to lie extended to ihe* enh'-e of the road, and the occuoier of the land shall accordingly be d-.-oi. e*.l to be the occupier of that -.art of tlroad afTccted, the Boar:" Wils liable to bo penalised for r. vn he noxious weeds off. j. the ,*Wlto the Board Ki s IU . . ._ failuro-to comply with the Act.
