WHOSE LIABILITY?
Fences Along Railways Disagreement with the attitude of the Railways Department concerning responsibility for erecting and maintaining fences along railway lines was expressed by members of the Dominion executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union in Wellington yesterday. It was decided to ask the Government to “put the matter right” and give full responsibility to the department. The general opinion was that all liability either for erection or maintenance should be taken by the department. The department had recently changed its attitude and it seemed that its responsibility for fences went no further than supplying the timber and asking the farmer through whose land the line ran to erect the fences. They were being burned frequently beitause of the trains passing. The position appeared to be that if a man had given the land for the railway he was responsible for the fence: if the land had been token by proclamation he was not responsible.
Mr.-W. J. Polson, M.P.. tlm president, said he thought that under the Act the department had no liability tor the fences.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 115, 8 February 1935, Page 3
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178WHOSE LIABILITY? Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 115, 8 February 1935, Page 3
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