DISPUTE OVER JOHNSONVILLE SALEYARDS

Chronicle (Levin), 16 December 1947, Page 2

DISPUTE OVER JOHNSONVILLE SALEYARDS

An injunction to restrain Abraham and Williams Ltd., the owners, and Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., the users, from permitting land by the Johnsonville railway station to be used as stock or cattle saleyards was sought by the Johnsonville Town Board before Mr. Justice Christie in the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday. The case cornes after almost nine years of correspondence between the board and the owners and users. Mr. T. P. Cleary presented the board's statement of claim, which said that the use of the land as saleyards constituted a nuisance to the residents of the township. It listed the noise made by he stock, the allegedly insanitary condition of the yards, danger to children from the droving of stock to and from the yards, and the keeping of animals there overnight, causing them unnecessary suffering, as the reasons for the constitution of a nuisance. The statement of defence, presented by Dr. O. C. Mazengarb, K.C., with him Mi'. H. R. C. Wild, denied that the saleyards constituted a nuisance. The only occasions on which stock was kept in the yards overnight were when there had been delay in the delivery of stock by rail, it was stated. The defence also claimed that the yards were kept as clean and sanitary as could be arranged with present facilities. Many affidavits in Support of the motion and for the defence were produced. The case is proceeding.