RESTRAINT URGED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 139, 29 June 1937, Page 5

RESTRAINT URGED

Application of the Rorough ... By-Laiws RETAILERS' DISCUSSION The Hastings borough by-law d.ealing with goods overhanging the , pavemeii t= is engagang the attention of the inspector, according to a statlment made at a meeting of retailera yesterday. In the cqurse of a discus^on it was stated that if every law ahd by-law were strictly enforced life wpuld be unendurablp. The laws existed to proteet the rights of qthera. Where such rights were not affected, members agrepdj there • was no need for strict enforcernent. The secrctary, Mr H, E. Frfench, pqinted out thq' by-law as applipd to traffie contrpl. Iu the past, he said, euetomers of Hastings haye in some instances begn unneces.sarily taken to Court fpr triyial offances whiph had not inconvenienced anypne, Mr k J* said that hia name had been tahpn "because one pf the wheels of his car had been six inches over the parking line, thpugh the qther thrge liad been well within it. To apply siich strictness to country yisitors wouid make them inclined to do their business elsewhere, Thq ehairman, Mr O, Grifliths, said that represeniatdons would be _ipade asking fhat cpinmon.sense be qxercisec! in the application pf the by-laws.