Public Opinion

Southland Times, Issue 23693, 16 December 1938, Page 14

Public Opinion

Letters sent to the Editor for printing must be written in ink on one side of the paper only and writers must send in their names and addresses in full whether they wish these to be printed or not. When a pen-name is used, the writer should sign his real name on a separate sheet or at the foot of his letter, where it can be cut off before the letter passes out of the Editor’s hands. Writers must say clearly whether or not their letters are being, or have been, sent to other papers. Tire Editor cannot return or keep any letter which, for any reason, is unsuitable for printing, nor < he acknowledge unsuitable letters, although this will be done where it seems to be needful, or ente- into any correspondence about letters sent in.

Interested (Otautau). —The chairman of the Otautau Town Board has supplied the following information: “We have no by-law other than that relating to trees or hedges overhanging footpaths which reads as . follows: —‘No owner or occupier of land shall allow trees or shrubs growing thereon to overhang or encroach on any street, private street, or footway, and if shall be lawful for the board to cause all trees or shrubs so overhanging or encroaching to be lopped or the encroaching portions thereof to be removed at the discretion of the board. The cost of such work shall be paid by the owner or occupier and may be recovered as a debt due to the board.’ It is evident that the inquiry you have received can only be settled by common law governing this matter, which I am not familiar with.”