PIG SMELLS.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 63, 14 March 1924, Page 7

PIG SMELLS.

rm.— m NEIGHBOUR OBJECTS. AX INJUNCTION SOCGHT. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. An injunction and £200 damages were in the Hamilton Supreme Court hv William Wright, farmer, of Waharoa, aiainst the Xew Zealand Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd., and Edwin Smith and William Edward Avers, the injunction being to restrain defendants from continuing as a pi" farm the use of an area of 59 acres of land adjoining plaintiff's pro"pertv at Waharoa. The Dairy Company is the owner of the land, which is leased to the other two defendants as a ni" farm, the waste from the milk at the Waharoa factory being conveyed to the farm by means of pipes. Plaintiff claimed" that the smell arising from the farm was offensive and pestilential, rendering residence in his house uncomfortable, and reducing the selling value of the property. Mr. S. Allen iMorrinsvillc) represented plaintiff, and Messrs. MacDiarmid and Gray the defendants. Emma Elizabeth Wright, wife of the plaintiff, Frederick Wright, deposed as to the commencement of the nuisance complained of shortly after the pig farm was started in December, 1922. The ] smell now permeated the house, especially in the evenings and mornings, and was so bad that it made the house very uncomfortable. The occupants had to tike their meals with all the windows shut. A large number of other witnesses, including plaintiff himself, gave evidence of a corroborative nature. Defendants, on the other hand, soughtto show the method employed of dealing with the waste buttermilk from the factory was the best that had yet been devised. The company had done, and was doing, all it could to try and be fair to plaintiff, and intended carrying out further improvements at an early date. The farm was exceedingly well run, and the smell arising from it was the ordinary one associated with a pig farm, and had been much exaggerated by plaintiff and his witnesses. About forty witnesses gave evidence j altogether. The case is proceeding. j