THE FENCING LAW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18225, 19 October 1922, Page 8

THE FENCING LAW.

■ ■ I ; v, hew Bltfc PASSJEJ>v - "fitt TELEGEArH. —TRKSS iisOCIATItOS.I s>- xsts'jf: « r WELLINGTON, Weaaesi!**,, The second reading -of the Fencing 'Amendment Bill was moved in, IherHouse to-night by-the Hon. W. DoTTOie Stewart The Bill- includes a provision relating Hri «native land subject to the operation of the principal Fencing Act, so that an-owner who has failed to obtain, payment orhalf -"the cost- of a fence from the adjoining native landowner may, when the letter's land is. allocated to a Eoropean, collect his share of the cost from the new owner. 1 The Bill-repeals the present exmption of Sooth Island lands from the provisions relating to the construction of rabbit-proof fencing; enabling an owner to secure the payment of half the cost of such fencing from the adjoining owner. The Statutes Revision Committee deleted clause 4, intended to empower an owner ia the case of Hefault by an adjoining owner to enter the latter** land and clear noxious weeds Ufyt&d distance of half a chain along the length -of:the boundary line when likely - to be a source of danger from fire. "tfa.,.%n?. Hockly(Rotorua) approved of. the Bffir but said he hoped the Minister 7 would "-ice that a man who bought a • piece • native land was not called upon to pay twice for a fencu, aa he would-already have had to pay something included in the purchase price ilsa consideration, of the fact that the laud was "fen'ced or partially fenced. - .Messrs* T. D: Burnett (Temnka) andV. , EL : ;Beed .fßay of, Islands) regretted the <lektaon. ; of v clause 4, which afforded a measure of "protection from the neglect of * a careless-owner. The' Bill was read a second tune, put • and passed.*