PUT UP BIG FENCE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10392, 9 May 1927, Page 3

PUT UP BIG FENCE

MAGISTRATE’S ADVICE! TO WOMEN. . NEIGHBOURS’ SQUABBLE IN COURT. (Special to the Times.) AUCKLAND, May 7. “A wire fence!” said Mr Hunt, S.M., at the Police Court to-day. ‘‘That is no good; they want a brick walk” The Magistrate was trying one of those frequent cases in which neighbors bring their ovei-tlie-back-fence trouble to court and go to all the bother of counsel, witnesses and so on, when a little common-sense would have saved all trouble. It was asked that defendant be bound over. After listening to 'what both women had to sav, Mr Hunt severely sub-edited what looked like taking a couple of hours’ talk and finished it off inside two minutes. “There you are. now,” bo said, after he bad got the gist of the matter. “Go away home and promise net to interfere with one another again,. The best thing to do is to get a good fence, a. decent six foot fence, put up between you, and both of you keep on your own sides for the, future.” Each party promised to have nothing to do with the other, and the matter ended so far as the Court is concerned.