Mr Malcolm, M.P.,' is a visitor to Dannevirke to-day. An impounding notice is published to-day. ..'..<.> Constable Mills Aras yesterday'-3i6---missed from the service for being intoxicated whilo on duty in AVellington City on Saturday night, i - ..' Mr McNab addressed ah immense and enthusiastic meeting at thd-'Opera' -■-- House to-night He was-appointed! throughout, and at the close of hisaddress a -resolution in favor of national military training Avas carried unanimously. Mr McNab speaks at Hastings to-night. An important transaction in toAvn property Avas concluded yesterday, Mr Campbell Thomson, having disposed of liis fine villa residence on .Victoria Avenue to Mr M. Morgan, -while Mr rhomson takes over Mr Morgan's, pic-turesquely-situated, residence on: tho banks of the Mangatera stream. In the Supreme Court at "Wellington yesterday, Mr Justice Cooper gave judgment in the case Andrew Ja-clv v. Palmerston Borough Council, rhe question of general interest, involved was Avhether or not a local body had the right to authorise one iind only one type of appliance —a rentilator in this case —for .any particular A\ork, and exclude all others. The Judge said the. Council must bo presumed to know what was best in the interests':of the borougli and must be credited Avith having exercised its. discretion \vitli due regard to such interests. The Court could not usurp the- functions- of the Council in a matter within the discretion of that body. Judgment went for 'defendants with costs.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 287, 8 June 1909, Page 5
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