A TWO-CENTURY OLD FEAST.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1799, 11 July 1913, Page 5

A TWO-CENTURY OLD FEAST.

INTERESTING ACTION AT LAW, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Sydney "Sun" Special—July 10, 7.25 p.m.) London, July 10. ■The trustees of the Bedford Estate are appealing to restrain the Leeds Corporation from permitting the "Woodhouse Moor Feast," which has been held annually for the last two liundred years, on the'ground that it is a public nuisance. The noise of roundabouts, switchbacks, helter-skelters, shooting down, steam , organs, motor-horns, and megaphones last until midnight, after which a menagerio wild beasts is roaring all night.

The "Woodhouse Moor Feast" was tho subject of a lawsuit last year, when tlie Bedford Trustees sought to obtain an interim injunction restraining the Leeds Corporation from proceeding with tho observance. Mr. Justice Banks, who heard the application, held that the plaintiffs, who, he considered, were more concerned about their building estates than for the comfort of their servants, had their remedy in an action for damages, and that remedy was as good as any other. He did not think the case was one in which he ought to interfere.