IMPORTANT DECISION
.Caution lo Borough Councillor! '[BY TiLEOBAPff.] ■'".' '-"■' I^ONITBID PBEBS 4 SBOCI ATICN.] ''■';■.' 'I r ::;f KuMAHA, Feb. 23i/ v >■ The ' following'" impoitant decision u iw» been givenib the j jltisidcnt Magis- " ifcrete's Couvt^George Siminonds was summoned by 'George Stewart, whe claimed £50 penalty for Siminondj acting as borough councillor when itt capacitated ' under tiie'fofirth subseo 'tion of the Bixty-first section of " Th< Corporations Act, 1876.' J)r Giles, the Resident Magistrate " gftvS^ jtrrtgmenTfor plaintiff, and said be 'disputed that the wbrl . in'the p'ieqientjcase, was done for tin . iQounciJiaiid'l'aid for by the Council land'l' ( ianl'<Jafittid ndthing has beer "diifttrtt Svhicl^fln () reKev6 ftie defenijaui from the penalty.,- Jji^gret I have n< power to mitigate the penalty, but i appears to me that the plaintiff i
entitled for the amount claimed with co»ts." In another similar case brought against Sirnmonds, under the •'ame clause, by Mr Duncan McLennan, another penalty of £50 and costs was 'nflicted. -
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 73, 25 February 1884, Page 3
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153IMPORTANT DECISION Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 73, 25 February 1884, Page 3
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