RIGHT-OF-WAY QUESTION.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 April 1910, Page 2

RIGHT-OF-WAY QUESTION.

T!I K liM I '. AT K'HTTAIiOA I! IST!;i'V OK TM.IO DISI'UTIC. At the 1.-ist meeting of tlie HoroCan..■•!'. it will he iiled ed, Air S. Campbell wrote tint tin' rt'iid hi his sot-lion :'l Kopiltaroa s! i ; 111 r I I.:- made legal. ill' V. ;;S II !! ill!'.' to ;'llt M ill iICC SS i'u !i:- I;i11:!. Tin* nrd. lie said, Jit nn-'ivit w-s b-irred. and he wa.s too old and ii.!(icm to climb fences :tik] break down gates. The- troubleappears to Inc. c anxe.il some three or four monfl's ifigo. Mr Campbell i< i> v.-il kr.'M\ ii n si.iviit of the district. lurring h..eu living in the i-'-r "!> !?;•• \ i-ijii: v f:r 15 yen.rs. .Ml the time he had made use of •: r: 1 whirl). according to the ":"'ty m:i]). runs through the prov. 1 1- us arisen through the fact that on Mrs Webb's t>tl > rloii' 1 --.- Hin'-!' is no voiid shown, and In r coiitentioii is t'",;it there is, no right-of-wa v. Tn this ■•he upheld 1.-y her legal advis-.-rs. Although she has lived on the sectimi far some two years, it; is only four ni"n,!:s since see decided to erect gates, and Mr Campbell complains that he now has no exit out •f lii; section. His solicitor .advises him that the road he asks to he allowed to use a.s hitherto i.s n public road: and so mutters stand. A good d"al of ill feeling has hen engendered over the incident, fl'id it appears that the gates have oir-» n broken down by the Council's surfaceman. Tt should he, und. vstood that the surfaceman was n't acf-iiir n:id ci' !ii v t rnclimis from t'"> Council. His action \v;-s the re.su I ( of a wi'h Mr Canri--1.;>11.;>11. Cone.cillcv Venn, at Sati"''::iy's meeting, "-'poke vcrv pli:inly ' -1 fl.ri s-hli jet. -Mid said that Mr Cainjibell should give their surfacemen an axetoehon the gates dow a again, hut the Council authorit'-c c<>r"ider that the ir.att.=r is, nut r.«•" in which the Cained can take sn h ■in' arbitrarv course. To car;"-* out this advic v,-ouhl put the eou"- +'■ '>"'hoK'-' in " false position. Htlw.u.rli ■. r ,f f 11:11 charact ip-v lc> in llic hands of M" Came--I,'il. i"ii ;is Ihe onlv " ' 11 <n which a quest ion of right-of-way lr1 r" district, for mm-v vears. and it, is to he regretted th ' 1 ' the part' " - 1 -i not ""<» thair we'i o i 'ini ig to 'Ml av- 'ea ,, l'> unde"t .f ... 7i,,,_r, Tf. i- .ver e Collll^ 1 Council has decided to take "t'" l '.',ll 1-.v 4i-« iin'i.s," and ha.s serve'- 1 r n the r: tepavors and owncrs of the pronertv that it is H' • rouncil'f inffffif" +o t;>!•-" f'o vcl c-,.)- under the- Public Works Act,. This curse wn c ' suggested to th'-' C'..nii'"l hv the Count,v Engineer. a + I°st. meting. and it f.eonis to he the most cnu'table one under the circumstances, to -adopt.