BUILDING BY-LAWS.
A SUPREME COURT DECISION. .PALMERSTON N., February 20. Reserved judgment vvas delivered by Mr Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court to day on an appeal bv the Woodville Borough Council against the decision of Mr S L. P. Free. S.M., in dismissing five informations for alleged breaches of the building by-laws. The appeal was allowed, and the matter was referred to the magistrate to fix penalties. The case was one in which the defendant vvas charged with erecting a partv wall otherwise than in accordance with the by-laws, and also with failing to pull down the. wall within a reasonable time after notice to do so. The magistrate decided that the law bad been settled n a previous decision of the Supreme Court, in which it was held that a certificate by an inspector vvas conclusive proof that the building was in accordance with the bylaw
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Otago Witness, Issue 3859, 28 February 1928, Page 77
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148BUILDING BY-LAWS. Otago Witness, Issue 3859, 28 February 1928, Page 77
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