RIGHT TO ROADS
AN UNREASONABLE BYLAW
■0 — .-!" •*> USE OF ROUTE BY STOCK
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) GISBORNE, This Day. Expressing support for a previous decision that bylaws must not destroy the rights of the public to use the roads, Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., yesterday held that the Main Highways Board's bylaw restricting the use of the Waioeka Road by stock was unreasonable and therefore invalid. The case arose out of the prosecution of nine defendants who in defiance of the bylaw, had driven, mobs of stock over the route, contending that the onlyi alternative road between Poverty Bay and the Bay of Plenty was devoid of sufficient feed and water.
In the course of the hearing it was stated that 120,000 sheep and 25,000 cattle went annually from the district to the Waikato market and that the board's bylaw amounted to prohibition of an important trade.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 123, 20 November 1935, Page 9
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146RIGHT TO ROADS Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 123, 20 November 1935, Page 9
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