CATCHMENT BOARD’S BY-LAWS
A new set of by-laws prepared for the North Canterbury Catchment Board was approved, with one dissentient vote, at a meeting of the North Canterbury Catchment Board yesterday The by-laws will be confirmed at a special meeting of the board on November 7. To a question of Mr R. M D. Johnson. the chairman (Mr W Machin) said the bv-laws had been formed -in accordance with a set of model ones I* ' vai ' realised that it would be possible for a board, under these regulatlons to act in an arbitrary fashion and to imoose on a high-country landowner restrictions which might costly to him. That had been reat every meeting of the board for the last two and a half years.
“Our intention is that we will not exercise these powers in an arbitrary -.ashion. and in the meantime we will point out to the Local Body Commishow these refutations and he P!ver« Control and Soil Conservation « liable to be administered, Mr Machin said.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25306, 4 October 1947, Page 10
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