COST OF MOVING POLES
WHOSE LIABILITY?
The question of the. liability, to pay the cost of removal and re-erection of electric light poles when a street is widened has not yet been fixed as between the Electric Power Board and the local body controlling the. district. The parties concerned all over the .Dominion are anxiously awaiting a decision on the matter in a test case which is being taken, on the question in Southland. In the meantime, the Lower Hutt Borough Council is paying over to the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board; without prejudice, a sum of approximately £400 for shifting poles in widened streets in various parts of the borough. ' : : : The board has agreed to'refund the money if the decision goes against the power boards.. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 126, 25 November 1930, Page 8
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126COST OF MOVING POLES Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 126, 25 November 1930, Page 8
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