BREACH OF THE BUILDING BY-LAW.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1955, 31 May 1880, Page 3

BREACH OF THE BUILDING BY-LAW.

In the Magistrate’s Court to-day the case of the City Council r George Askew was heard for breach of the building by-law made by the City Council for the protection of existing buildirn a agiinst fire. Mr Garrick for the yros l ution ; Mr Joyce for defence. Mr Walkd. n, city surveyor, proved the contravention of the letter of the law. Mr Joyce said the offence, if it was an offence, was admitted. His defence was that there had not been sufficient publication of the by law,as required hy the Municipal Corporations Act, 1876, inasmuch as there had been no publication in extenso either in the newspapers or otherwise, which he contended was absolutely recesstlry to bring the by law in o validity. Mr Garrick, in reply, contended that the notices appearing in the newspapers of the making of the hy law was sufficient to comply with the requirements of me ao , although ho was at the same time of the opinion that it would have been much more satisfactory if the whole of the by law had been published His Worship agreed with Mr Garrick that the ciurso laid down by the Act had been followed, and gave a verdict for the plaintiffs. The defendant was fined £5 and cos’s. City C -unoil v Mucday, another case of the same kind, was similarly disposed of. Mr Joyce, in both caeee, gave notice of spued.