IMPORTANT TO FLAXMILLERS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10405, 19 July 1912, Page 2

IMPORTANT TO FLAXMILLERS.

Per Press Association. Palmertson North; July 18. A case of very great importance to flaxmillers was beard at the last sitting of the Supreme Const at PahE" piston, in which Pearce, a ee ! t^t r on the banks of the Orona river, sought to show that four flaxmllle . whose mills are on the banka of the Orona, oast or allowed refnae: from their mills to flow « river with the result that the water waa polluted and unlit for c ° aaa “J' iion hy stock and further that bed o/the river was ra!fc n ® d J a ow a | the river at the time of overflowing to flood plaintiff’s land. f iaii«ered decided in favour of plainwn. “aid: “Defendants cannot put the effluents from their J Oll1 ® k JJ river and so pollute It. It m y

considerable may j nritmled or destroyed if they cannot VSne what * 1 it mav he that plaintiff s io-s d.»p will M smaU-very «<.'»' compared wltb ,w *°"tAV d ,f' /adants, who would suffer byjh° 8 Aara ._ tion of the present r £ feho , disposal of effluents, but i cannot consider such results. y Court j held, however, that nonf y 0 * fche j defendants was Lahie i r damages enstained hy an overfl ot the river. Judgment for damages was given in each act costs on the lowest scale. £» injunction to Issue to p effluents going into the river ni e p Eß aen4 elate.