BOROUGH BY-LAWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1671, 10 February 1906, Page 3

BOROUGH BY-LAWS.

IVJBR3 OP SHEEP TO OBTAIN PERMITS.

Lt the Magistrata's Court yesterday, omas Gibb Adam was fined the nioal sum of Is without coals, for driv- ; sheep through the Borough during ihlbited hours without leave of the wn Clerk. Mr Nolan, for defendant, nilted there had been a technical ach of the by-law, but pointed out that iermit for driving sheep bad never been an in the Borough, not being thought pessary, The defendant had been inmed from the Council offioe that a pert was unnecessary. Much inoonveni:e would bo caused and injury done to i staple industry of the district by putg this by-law into force. His Worship cl the by-law should be altered if it was isidered permits were not needed. Mr Nolan said the by-laws were under. 13d to be olvislio ; the Court would be ;upied from daylight to dark if every rspn who committed a breach of the relations were brought before it.

His Worship sr'd he had to admioster e law as he found it.

Pergus Camming, olerk at the Borough unoil office, deposed that Mr Gordon d rung up and inquired if it was necc3ry to have a permit for driving sheep, itoess replied it was not, having bcoa so itruoted by the Town Clerk. It was an iderstood custom that permits for sheep ire not neoessary.

The defendant deposed that ho drove eep through the town on February Ist, id was epoken to by the police. Prior driving shoop next day, he asked Mr ordon to ring up the Council cfiire, and as there advised a permit was unnecesiry.

His Worship said it seemed that it had len generally uodorstood that people had right to drive sheep through tbe streots ithout authority, but it was a mistaken lea. The term cattle was specified to inude sheep, aad people bad no right to rive them during tbe prohibited hours ritbout a permit. As this was the first roseoution of tbo kind bo would infliot a omiual penalty of Is without costs.