IMPORTANT POINT OF HIGHWAYS ACT
Otautau Case DISPUTE OVER MAIN STREET MAINTENANCE _ AGREEMENT OVERBIDDEN. . Per Press Association. INVERCARGILL, Last Night. An, important point in connection with the passing of the Main Highways Act on. agreements between local bodies regarding the maintenance of roads, not previously decider! by the Court, came before Mr. Justice Ostler at the last sitting of the Supreme Court at Invercargill. The roads under review were Merivale street and Main street, Otautau and there was an agreement to maintain them between the Otautau Town Board and the Wallace County Council.
The latter body contended that the effect of the passing of the Main Highways Act, 1922, ami the declaration of the Biverton-Otautau road . as a main highway had the effect of over-riding the agreement, as the streets were part of the main highway. The Otautau Town Board claimed from the’Wallace Council £S9 11s 6d, alleged' to bo due under the contract by the defendant Council to pay a proportion of the cost of maintenance of the main road in the town of Otautau.
His Honour, who reserved his decision, has found for the defendant Council, i
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6733, 9 October 1928, Page 6
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189IMPORTANT POINT OF HIGHWAYS ACT Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6733, 9 October 1928, Page 6
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