BY-LAW DISPUTED.
THEATRICAL FIRM'S CLAIM.
The failure of Messrs. B. and J. Fuller, . ; Lt4. (Mr. R. McVeagh}, to comply with a notice served by the Auckland City Council (Mr. A. E. Johnstone), requiring 1 them to supply a sanitary convenience in the Opera House, Wellesley Street, resulted in an action brought before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., yesterday, in the Mm* trate's Court. Mr" McVeagh contended that the by-law was ultra vires, inn- ' much as -the Municipal Corporation Act conferred no power to compel thsafcW owners to instal conveniences, that tb* ' j by-law was unreasonable, because it- inI vested the chief sanitary inspector with unnecessarily wide powers, and that even I if the by-law were good the notice saved I by the council did not specify the mods • of construction and the place where the J convenience should be situated.' Mr. A. I E. Johnstone maintained that the by-law 'was clearly intra vires as interpreted by Section 34SC of the Municipal Corpora-V , tions Act, that the by-law was reasonaWe i in the powers left to the discretion of I the sanitary inspector, _ and that _it was ! reasonable to require some convenience in la theatre. Evidence was also given by ICitv Council sanitary officials. The magistrates reserved his decision.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17483, 29 May 1920, Page 8
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