THE TREE-CUTTING INCIDENT.
THE ATTITUDE OF THE BOABD. . At the meeting of the Education Board to-day, tbe Chalrman.reported that the resolution passed at the previous meeting, to the effeot. that the opinion of Messrs ' Fell and Atkinson should .be taken regarding the legality or\otherwise of the Motuj^plko School Committee's action in cutting -the trees in the school ground, had not been carried outi In view of the recent decision in the Magistrate's Court it was not considered necessary to obtain the • opinion'. After some discussion it was decided fo take no immediate aotion, but to await the future oourse of event-, the general feeling being that the matter should be allowed to drop if tbe Motupiko residents re- - maiaed quiet. Mr Franklyn Baid there was no desiie ' on the part of the Board (which included' four chairmen of committees) to interfere - with the legitimate functions of commit- ." tees. ■ r- Mr Harper, acting on behalf oi MrW. ' /Gibbs, is obtaining Sir Robert Stmt's opinion on' tho question of an appeal to the Supreme Court againßt tbe decision of '*- Mr Robinson, S.M., in the case .of Gibbs v. ',-•--•. Evans, heard on Friday last.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXII, Issue 91, 26 April 1898, Page 3
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