BLOCKED SEWER
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Man's Grievance Against Borough Council
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BLENHEIM, Last Night. Acting under a sense of grjevance against the Blenheim Borough Council, David Smart, a horse trainer, engaged A. M. Hammond, a labourer, to uncover a borough sewer, which they broke and blocked with a bag of bran. As a result, Smart and Hammond were charged in the Magistrate 's Court with wilful damage. The seriousness of the offeuce was stressed by the borough. solicitor, wlo stated that a charge could have been laid under a section providing a penalty of three years' gaol and a fiue oi £500. Counsel for the defence explained that resented the council installing the sewer on the property, of which he had some form of lease, without his permission. Tfie resentmest increaged when racehorses wero allege^ly poisoned from eatipg clay tbrown out of the sewer excavation. The cquncil refused to recognise any claim for compensation- ' Mr. T. E. Mannsel], S.M., fined Smart ;£5 and convictod and discharged Ram' | mond.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 101, 15 May 1937, Page 7
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