The Drainage Board list bight; decided 'to grant, permission to the 1 Beau* tifyjng Association, t6 reconstruct • the . waterfall in the vicinity of the. Hospital, bridge, provided , thedesign * is approved' ,by. the. Board's engineer, and l the Association bfears the 1 cost. This ; followed on the rescinding, an' the motion of. Mr E. H. S. Hamilton, of, the Board's previous resolution declining to give ptjrmissjon: Reference ' was: made in the course of the discussion it to the fact that the waterfall first was j made without authority froiji the .Board, j ahd that after the Boatd had'deatroyed it, it had beeu reinstated, andhad to | be destroyed again. /The chairman (Mri Walter Hill) wanted t6 know Why the; persons responsible ' had not been prose-j cuted., Mr H, G. Livingstone advanced j as an answer' that the Board was '4 a; nice, pasy-gping body." The secretary] • explained that, after •. the second ;con-! struction of the waterfall the Beautify-j irig As'so'ciatibn had been" told that it' would bi prosecuted if it' 'again con-' strutted- the- waterfall. i'■ ; !
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18671, 21 April 1926, Page 10
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