FURNITURE IN TIP

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 March 1943, Page 3

FURNITURE IN TIP

BAILIFF AND TENANT

Because Fred Lindsay Backhouse,, an elderly man, would not remove his furniture and effects from the footpath in Cottleville Terrace, where they had been put by the bailiff under an eviction order, the City Corporation sent them up to the tip at Karori, and in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court Eackhouse was fined £2 by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., for causing a nuisance by not removing them himself. Mr. Cooper, for the corporation, said that Backhouse was evicted by the bailiff on January 22. The bailiff nut the defendant’s goods on the street and the defendant, who knew thev were there, simply left them. The result was that the footpath was obstructed, and the obstruction remained until the corporation took the effects to the tip. L was the first case of the kind •hat had come before the Court, said Mr. Cooper, and there was considerable argument as to the bailiff’s action In the circumstances the corooration did not seek a heavy penalty. but asked that, in imposing Density, the Court should take into consideration the cost of removal, £1 3/-. An action against the bailiff, for allegedly causing an obstruction on the street, was adjourned.