, NEW PLYMOUTH, August 10. "Look Ilow ridiculous it is. I haven't bought a slieet of iron for 20 years — • some of it lias been on tlie farm 30. years — but aecording to tlie Building Controller, I cannot use it fqr an essential implement shed." I must just iet 11 rust away!,, With. these remarlcs addressed to the Eltham County Council today, Mr. A. V. Tait criticised the Building Controller 's refusal to give him a perm.it for an essential implement gheck Salvaged iron and timber would be used for the shed., said Mr. Tait; ana he would not employ a carpenter, All he needed to buy were nails and three bags of eement. "A man on a mechanised farm canJt alford to have tractors and impler&ents left out in the weather all winter," lbe declared. "He would siniply be driv-en out of. milking, yet vve are being asked to increase production for Britain. " The council decided to support Mr. Tait iu a protest agaiust the refusal of a periuit.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 August 1949, Page 2
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