COURT OF APPEAL.
THE FEILDIXC; CASE.
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April 6. At the Appeal Court in the case Feilding Borough Council against the Feilding Gas Company, Dr. Findlay, Attorney-General, contended fliat the Borough was not prohibited under the Municipal Corporations Act from contracting with the defendant company for the supply of gas to the inhabitants. Section 222 of the Act gave them full power, and that section was not controlled by section 22, entailing that there was implied authority in the Borough by virtue of its ownership of streets to' authorise any person to do anything to the streets which did not actually amount to a nuisance. Sections 210 and 422. recognised this authority. Dr. Findlay further contended that the company had committed no nuisance, and in a small borough with wide streets like Feilding the company could carry on operations! without committing a nuisance. The c.-i • • : • proceeding.
A"g'.'-ncnt in the Appeal Court in the case of the Feilding Borough Council versus Feilding Gas Co. Is concluded.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2159, 7 April 1908, Page 2
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