Farmer Under Orders
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, Oct 8.
A London judge has ordered a farmer, Mr George Warr, to stop trying to blight the crop of radio masts that flourish on his pastures to benefit British diplomats around the world. The court was told that over the last two years Mr Warr had interfered with the running of a radio station set up on 94 acres of his land by the Foreign Office to carry messages to embassies abroad. Counsel for the AttorneyGeneral said that Mr Warr had obstructed station staff, threatened them with violence, and withdrawn grazing stock so that the grass in the station area had grown waist high. Mr Warr said he had leased the land to the Crown but did not regard the agreement as binding because it had been forced on him by the threat of compulsory acquisition.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32114, 9 October 1969, Page 17
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