PROTECTING LAND FROM FLOODS
JUDGMENT REGARDING EMBANKMENTS. By ' Telegraph—Press Association. Gisborne, May 11. Mr. Justice Hosking's judgment in the civil action' dealing with the right of piupertj-holders to protect property against flood follows the Appeal Court decision, and declares that land may be ombanked against floods provided tho river channel is not interfered with; thai; Hood waters flowing promiscuously over the country are not to be treated as flowing in any channel for purposes of this rule; and tliat for any injury done to other lands by reasonable embankment for the purpose of warding off such waters no damages can be recovered by the sufferers.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 202, 15 May 1918, Page 6
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105PROTECTING LAND FROM FLOODS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 202, 15 May 1918, Page 6
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