OVERHANGING TREES.
ito the editor. 1 Your Lausdowne correspondent drew attention to the danger of dead* branches falliug from gum trees in that neighbourhood. Iv the same locality, iv Totara-road, there is a row of cuprossus' macrocarpa trees, the lower branches of which project over the footpath, so as to render half its width useless. Along the same footpath, aud a-loug several others near it, there are wire feuces which have been allowed to get into disrepair, and which have brokeu wires, both plain aud barbed, sticking out over the
paths. These are extremely dangerous, but again there are mauy feuces about Lausdowuo and elsewhere iv tho suburbs of Mastertou which arc in good repair, but which have barbed wires ou their road ward side. This has been ruled to be illegal iv at least one Court in New Zealand, and persons injured iv flesh or clothing thereby could certainly obtain damages. It' the laudholders cau't do without barbed wires, they should be compelled to keep them ou their own side of the road feuces.—l am, etc., A VIATOR.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8943, 18 December 1907, Page 7
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179OVERHANGING TREES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8943, 18 December 1907, Page 7
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