SWING GATES ON PUBLIC ROADS.
TO THE EDITOR. .*:",'" Sir,—By this morning's issue I find that the Mangere Board have given one Mr. Glasgow permission to erect swing-eates on public roads. For public information, will you through your columns, give what is the legal dimensions for such gates, and oblige.—l am, etc., G. R. MoCrak. Auckland, February 4,1895. (Though existing laws give local governing bodies the power to erect swing-gates on public roads, ib is a vicious principle, and ought to be exercised as seldom as possible, as the desire for such a- privilege has selfishness at the bottom, while local bodies should try to preserve public rights intacb. As bo the size of gates no dimensions are given, but if the whole width of the road is required for. any purpose, then . everything must give way. The leave to close a road with a swing-gate was given to meet cases, in remote districts, where such a gate would save perhaps a mile of fencing. The practice ought not to prevail in any district near Auckland.Ed.]
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9736, 5 February 1895, Page 3
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175SWING GATES ON PUBLIC ROADS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9736, 5 February 1895, Page 3
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