COURTS.
(Per Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, April 6. In the Appeal Court case against the Feildi.ng. Gas Company, I>r. Findlaty, ■Attorney-General, contended1 that the ■borough was not prohibited under the Municipal Corporations Act fiom contracting with the defendant company *or the supply of gas to the inhabitants beetion 220 o? the Act gave them full ■power, and that sett-ion was not controlled by section 222. Failing that tnere was implied authority in the borough by vii-tue of its ownership of the streets to authorise any person to do ■anything to the streets' which did not actually amount'to a nuisance. Sections 240 and 422 recognise* this authority Dr. Fmdlay .further contended that the company'committed"" no nuisance and in » small borough, with wide streets liko leading the company could; carry on operations without committing a nuisance. The oase is pi^cceedinp.
Later. Argument in the App?al Cou't in the case—Peilding Borough versus Feilding Gas Company—wjis concluded WELLINGTON, April 6. A woman name:! Annie Barrie-, charged with tin? theft of a distress warrant from a bailiff, who was endeavouring to distrain on' her goeds, was committed for trial.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 7 April 1908, Page 5
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183COURTS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 7 April 1908, Page 5
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