NO PERMIT FOR GRANDSTAND

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25274, 28 August 1947, Page 3

NO PERMIT FOR GRANDSTAND

RACING CLUB FINED £25 Without obtaining a permit from the building controller for the' work, the North Canterbury Racing Club erected a grandstand at the racecourse at Rangiora on the foundations of the one which was burnt down last year. The club was fined £25 by Mr F. F. Reid, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday for proceeding with the work when it did not have authority. A plea of guilty was entered. “A fairly substantial job,” was the description of the grandstand given by Mr A. W. Brown, who prosecuted for the building controller. It was not an elaborate job by ordinary standards, but it was in the present state of emergency. Mr J. H. Macdonald, who represented the club, said that when one of the grandstands was destroyed by fire, a hollow was left which constituted a danger to patrons at the course. The committee decided to fill in the area, but on being informed wrongly that there was no objection to pinus timber, agreed to use this material. "It is clearly a temporary job, not a grandstand. It has not cost any other structure a stick of timber,” said Mr Macdonald.