CASHMERE ROADS.
f" —•— I® ELL'S ACTIVITIES. JspTION TAKEN BY COUNTY W COUNCIL. k tgl ftreomslances which led to the fjfLata .Connty Council instructing jtnShritfTii to write to Mr H. G. Ell to cease certain operations J5 CMbmere Hills, or steps would a token to obtain an injunction to stain him from continuing them, rr detailed by Cr. W. W. Scarff at ai night's meeting of the Heathcote fmty Council. Mr Ell's letter of taut 10th (already published), asking MlO earth or rocks on Dyer's Pass sdl be removed until he had pliotoirfii taken, was J 'ad. tY. Bearffi said the County chairman irJ.L. Dauks) received the letter at ; ua. on August 10th and discussed niters with him. The chairman bad uteditim to put the facts before tlio %t»ii About six or eight weeks ago ik diirman aud himself were delepH to interview Mr Ell relative to ifHw of trees left by him on tho 1% if the road, and other matters reWiaj to the main highway, but they hi rt been able to make arrangeFMiißtablfl to both of thorn to sec Mr uHi# isMter was left in abeym. Dusigtito Bo ad. On iagut 104 his attention was d/aWfl to trhi ns going on. For a tertm ftretdief Dyer's Pass road, beyond lie tatrsife to Victoria Park, loalderiiad been taken off tho top side »! tie ja(Ji lid fcad crushed on to tho then, tipped over into fce With Mr F. Cutroft Wibon, he had isited the Iccalltj. Mr Wilson's fence had gone ® m*nl pb«« where the rocks had pu w, 51e hole made on the road If at stone took two barrow-loads o£ ■pl t# ffl up; it also had shaken the I up a crack about half ii a distance of about eaeribed how the sideen filled with branches d that two men had to a prevent persons being i hairman and Cr. C. i with the decision to m the county solicitors Scarff mentioned that a garage at The Takahe ling permission, and the channel was not safe, that the footpath being Mr Ell was not being manlike manner, as it on soil, and the first it. He reminded mem- I incil that Mr ,Ell bad ind of trouble; not very cost the Council £3OO id made a deviation. B Approved. r. J. F. Scott, Cr, Scarff >romised Mr F. Cracroft ie fence right. , the Council's inspector, his opinion, said that D his work without any iouncil's road, liams said it was well--211 was a law unto him--0 anything l.e did. It f that he did not work 1 instead of against it. (Cr. C. Flavell) said ery easy with Mr Ell—nbt about that, i of Cr. Williams, secH. Moore, the Council action ' iken.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20316, 15 August 1931, Page 17
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