AMICABLE LITIGANTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20482, 6 February 1930, Page 13

AMICABLE LITIGANTS.

APPEAL AGAINST COUNCIL.

TOWN-PLANNING AT NEWMARKET An amicable method of conducting litigation was revealed at last evening s meeting of the Newmarket Borough Council, when a letter was received from Messrs. Stanton, Johnstone and Spence, solicitors, intimating that their client, Mr. T. U. Wells, had appealed to the Town Planning Board against the council s decision to refuse him a permit for the erection of a new building at the corner of Station Road and Broadway. The Mayor, Mr. S. Donaldson, said the council did not feel disposed to incur the expense of being represented before the board. Mr. Wells had informed him that he also did not intend to be present at the hearing of the appeal, but had prepared a statement of his case, which he would submit to the Town Planning Board. He was willing to let the council have a copy of the statement, so that his position would be quite clear. The Mayor: Mr. Wells is concealing nothing from us. I suggest that a written statement of our case should be made also, for submission to the board, and that Mr. Wells should be provided with a copy. It is a test case, and both sides are anxious to have a correct ruling on the question. On the motion of Mr. W. J. Jaffery it was decided that a committee consisting of the Mayor, the chairman of the Finance Committee, and the borough solicitor, should frame a letter embodying the case for the council, and that a copy should be forwarded to Mr. Wells.