BOROUGH BY-LAWS.
On Tuesday evening a remarkable position was taken up by the Borough Council, of actually setting its own by-laws at naught. An application had been made by Mr Stafford, who desired to remove premises of his, but as lie could not obtain bricks until some months hence, it would be impossible for him until thon to comply with the borough by-laws as to the erection of a brick wall for fire protection purposes. It was a hard case for Mr Stafford, and it would bo clearly unfair for the Council to obstruct him iu his business when no harm was dono to anybody, but it was quite a different thing for tho Council to knowingly break its own by-laws. Their minutod sanction of tho breaking of tiio by law does not protect Mr I Stafford in anyway, for any one could lay an information against him, but it does stultify the Council. What the latter might easily have dono was to have..passed the matter by, simply letting Mr S afford know that the Council would not interfere with him. Tho question of principle is at issue, aud the Council should not lightly set its by-laws aside. As Councillor Whinray would say, “ The position is incongruous. ”
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 166, 25 July 1901, Page 2
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